Sandra Cisneros And Frederick Douglass Essay

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eople think reading and writing isn’t important in life and is just boring. In the stories of Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, and Sandra Cisneros they all had similarities thoughts about how reading involved in their personal lives and without it they wouldn’t be where they are at right now. They had to change people’s or person perspective in order to have a change in their lives.Of course they had similarities and difference but they all had a plan on how reading/ writing could change their lives. Even though these people weren’t related or the same age, they had the same idea on reading and writing. The similarities/comparison about these fellow writers is that they had a passion to change people’s opinions. Frederick Douglass was an african american slave who was caged to not learn how to read or write. Malcolm X had to change people’s point of view for their rights. Sandra Cisneros had to change her father’s point of view as to why there is more to a girl than just looking for a man and marrying him and be a stay home mother and that she wanted to become someone in her life. They all wanted and had a choice to learn how to read and get something out of it and they did. In return they got respect and changed the people’s or the person opinion on them. In the same way that …show more content…
Malcolm X was an actual prisoner who got time in doing crime and Frederick Douglass and Sandra Cisneros didn’t. Frederick Douglass was a slave and the other other authors didn’t. Sandra Cisneros was a women who changed her father’s perspective which the other guy writers. Simple things like this makes them different to each other. The greatest impact that changes them is that the two male writers had like a role model. Frederick Douglass was a mistress and Malcolm X was Muhammad Ali. Unlike Sandra Cisneros, she really didn’t have a role model but she had her father by her side and the other writers

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