Malcolm X’s development as a person and his effects on others during his transition is…
Malcolm X had experienced many unfortunate events when he was young. When Malcolm‘s home was burned down to the ground. His father Earl Little was assassinated by the whites and his mother Louise Little was separated from Malcolm and went to a mental hospital. Malcolm and his siblings end up in a foster care. He grew up during the segregation and it was very difficult for him.…
Malcolm’s mom was part white, so Malcolm was born the lightest of all the children and experienced discrimination within his family. His father was brainwashed to think that anything closer to being white was better, so he treated Malcolm the best while his mother, hated the fact that she had “white rapist blood” in her and treated Malcolm the worst, because he was a constant reminder of it. When he moved to Boston, he saw all around him, a bunch of brainwashed black people. “They prided themselves on being incomparably more “cultured,” “cultivated,” “dignified,” and better off than their black brethren down in the ghetto, which was no further away then you could throw a rock” (Haley 42). Malcolm had very strong opinions about white people and black people, and liked to spread what he believed in which made him fit to be a Civil Rights leader. -Pearl…
The author in the Autobiography of Malcolm X starts by telling us how his family would receive threats because his father would give preachings of Marcus Garvey. He would use worlds such as “I” or “me” to make it first person point of view. His mother was pregnant during many unpleasant moments in their life in chapter one. Malcolm also introduces his family in chapter one.…
Malcolm showed a lot of character to push away his hatred of the white people and realize that people need to be one in the community. This transformation is the one that impacted the life people live today. Malcolm had a lot of respect from those who believed in what he was preaching. He was a man who knew what he wanted and was going to change the way things were. Malcolm did not have the odds to make something of himself. He overcame those odds and became one of the most inspiring and important people in the struggle for equality. Malcolm turned his life around for the better and left a huge impact to those around him. Malcolm (Little) X is one of the people who made the biggest influence on the 20th Century. People came a long way…
When growing up Malcolm and his family had been the target of society ever since he was born. When Malcolm a child his families first house was burned down while they were inside. This had tugged on the reader’s emotions which had made the readers feel a sort of sympathy for him and his family. He explains his story: “I remember being suddenly snatched awake into a frightening confusion of pistol shots and shouting and smoke and flames. My father had shouted and shot at the two white men who had set the fire and were running away. Our home was burning down around us. We were lunging and bumping and tumbling all over each other trying to escape…I remember we were outside in the night in our underwear, crying and yelling our heads off. The white police and firemen came and stood around watching as the house burned to the ground” (3). This allows the author to link back to the purpose of how the “white town” had torn this family apart which develops into Malcolm’s strong beliefs of fighting or rights of African…
When Malcom attended school. he was asked what he wanted to be. He replied that he wished to be a lawyer, but the teacher said, considering his race, to think realistically. This incident was the turning point of Malcom’s life and influenced his future actions. From that point forward Malcolm felt like the class pet rather than a student. Feeling this way, he dropped out of school and moved to Boston to like with his sister. Although when Malcolm moved to Boston, he was arrested due to theft, and was forced to take a light sentence. While in prison, he joined the Nation of Islam and devoured books in order to make up for the education he lost out on. When he left prison, Malcolm had brewed a strong hatred for the white race and their oppressing powers. Subsequently, when Malcolm X decided that the hour of liberation had arrived for his oppressed brothers, he was determined to show them how deceitful, rotten, and disrespectful the white race…
In the Autobiography of Malcolm X, the main character is Malcolm X. Malcolm is an intelligent black man, that demonstrates great leadership, ambition and is well at showing his aggressiveness in a calmly manner. Malcolm feels that the world views black people as lesser than individuals to the white man. He tries to escape this feeling by moving to different places but eventually realizes he ca not escape the truth. Minor characters that stood out to me in the book was Laura, Cassius Clay, and Elijah Muhammad. Laura was Malcolm’s first date, he eventually ends up breaking up with her. She allowed him to observe how the black community begins to dislike themselves because of the way the world portrays them. Cassius Clay also known as Muhammad Ali was a loving and caring friend of Malcolm. When Malcolm detached from the Nation of Islam, Cassius provided a place for him to lay his head. Elijah Muhammad was the Nation of Islam’s spiritual leader, he also filled one of Malcolm’s voids which was having a father figure. As he struggles with…
His mother, Louise Norton Little, was a homemaker occupied with the family's eight children. His father, Earl Little, was an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Malcolm got a lot of his strong opinions and ideas from his father. His father's civil rights activism prompted death threats from a white supremacist organization known as the "Black Legion", forcing the family to relocate twice before Malcolm's fourth birthday.…
Malcolm Little (his birth name) had a rough start in the world, but he never let that stop him from achieving his goal to make a difference. Growing up Malcolm’s mother Louise was caucasian and his father Earl was african american, so that was quite an awakening mix to some community members. Earl Little was a baptist minister and a supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Malcolm’s father had many threats towards him and his family which caused the to relocate a numerous amount of times. After their final relocating Malcolm’s Michigan house was burned to the ground by a group the Black Legion members. Two years after the house fire they had found Malcolm’s father’s body lying by the town’s train tracks. The police ruled the murder…
The life of Malcolm Little, and the hardships he was born into and had to deal with is the purpose of “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”. The text is very beautiful and powerful due to the way the author structures each scenario to the point where the reader becomes greatly involved. Throughout the story, the author allows the reader to understand everything by describing every event and confrontation vividly. (Alex Haley, Page. 1) “When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha, Nebraska, one night”, this statement he recalls from what happened before he was even born shows how Malcolm’s intention in this story is to not leave any detail out.…
It quickly became apparent to Malcolm's family that white society would never give blacks fair treatment. Before Malcolm was out of grammar school, Malcolm's father had been murdered and his mother, who was left to take care of his eight siblings, was put in an insane asylum. This resulted in Malcolm moving to New York to live with his relatives. Malcolm initially was a very successful student. However when his 8th grade teacher informed him that "Niggers can't be lawyers," a profession he intended to peruse, his educational inspiration quickly faded. Malcolm's new found obsession was the streets. Malcolm got involved in drugs, gambling, pimping and burglary. In 1946 Malcolm was arrested and put in prison. However, his imprisonment turned out to be a rebirth rather than a punishment.…
father’s action, Malcolm and his family underwent tough life, harassment from white people such as Ku…
Malcolm wrote, “Right there, in prison, debating, speaking to a crowd, was as exhilarating to me as the discovery of knowledge through reading” (Marable 91). During his term in prison, Malcolm underwent a process of self-improvement. Throughout his participation in the prison education debate program along with his self-directed study including his exploration of Islam, Malcolm X’s intellectual growth and development prepared him for a career at the NOI. At the Norfolk debate program, the prisoners would engage in weekly exchanges on a variety of issues. He possessed an excellent tenor voice, which helped him attract listeners (Marable 90-91). Malcolm used the public forum of debating to introduce Islam to the African American inmates, which paved the way for their religious conversion. It was these experiences in prison that helped him become a minister of the Nation of Islam. After becoming a member, Malcolm X preached about the vision of the NOI and adhered to the organization's adaptation of Garvey's philosophy of Black Nationalism emphasizing group empowerment and that a self-sustainable, all black capitalist economy was possible through social…
First I can relate to him how he wants to stop trying to be somebody he isn’t because I learned from life experience that you can’t try an follow in somebody else’s footsteps an take it as your own you need to live your own life and be who you want to be. Second I could relate to Malcolm X by him speaking his mind which I could relate to good because I speak my mind better known to have those like me for me an if they don’t I don’t care anymore. In Malcolm x’s autobiography he is in a time where he is being judged because what race he is and how I feel the same way sometimes. Most people in today’s world judge based on skin color still for them stealing an or doing wrong and for me having light skin they judge me for being different and that I will do wrong because of what races I have in me. This book for me did stir some emotions for me how he is being treated and how he grew up in life. Also it made me feel for Malcolm X how it must have been in those times having to deal with obstacles all the time and to overcome them to stay strong to get what he wants out of life which was blacks to be and they moved to Africa. The book kind changed my view of the world because I never knew there was another person who had different views for blacks on how they should be treated otherwise my views of the world stayed the same for me. The way I feel about what Malcolm X had to go through in 1960. Racism is sad an upset because they didn’t have the same rights as others but still came out on top through the worse times which makes it…