Coming To An Awareness Of Language And Jimmy Baca's Coming Into Language

Malcolm X’s story, ‘Coming to an Awareness of Language’, and Jimmy Baca’s story, ‘Coming into Language’, are similar by the fact that they both continued their education in prison, by getting a hold of a book and writing put the first word that they saw. The only different between how they wrote their ‘first word’ is how Malcom had a pen and tablet and Jimmy had to make a stub pencil that he whittled with is teeth and with a Red Chief notebook. What had encouraged Malcolm to restart his interest in this education is how Bimbi had taken charge of every conversation he had and Malcolm tried to emulate, match him, but failed. What had inspired Jimmy is when he met the men who read aloud to each other the words of Neruda, Paz, Sabines, Nemerov, and Hemmingway. Their language was the
Malcolm had the freedom to write in his notepad without authority telling him anything about it and he wrote about that was the only thing he loved to do in his free time. Meanwhile, Jimmy said he’ll never do any work unless his is working on his G.E.D and the captain replied back by saying Jimmy will be working no matter what. So they put him in maximum security for twenty-three hours a day in one of those cells. Later on they put him in isolation cells multiple times, one for fighting the guards, and later on they moved him to the nut-run where they mentally messed with him so much that he couldn’t talk. Lastly, Malcolm is short to the point with his experience with education himself in prison, while Jimmy elaborates on his emotions towards education himself and how his experience afterwards made him feel. When I say elaborate, he helps the reader picture and experience what he is going