The Struggle In The Autobiography Of Malcolm X

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.
“I remember being suddenly snatched awake into a frightening confusion of pistol shots and shouting and smoke and flames” (Page. 3), Malcolm explains this night in 1929 as his earliest vivid memory when he was only 4 years old. His father was there at the time, and the white men burnt their house down. “We were lunging and bumping and tumbling all over each other trying to escape” (Page. 3), after Malcolm’s family moved to the outskirts of Lansing, he basically moved every
Ostrowski said (Page. 37)“Malcolm, you ought to be thinking about a career. Have you been giving it a thought?”, and when he answered with (On Page. 38) ”Well, yes, sir, I’ve been thinking i’d like to be a lawyer”, he was shunned by the one white man he thought might like him. Mr. Ostrowski told him he needed to be realistic, and said “A lawyer-that’s no realistic goal for a nigger. You need to think about something you can be” (Page. 38), he implies that because he’s black that he cannot be what he wants, that he has to become something that requires his hands, like a “carpenter”. When he finally moves to Boston with his half-sister Ella, he was inspired by how strong she