Prison Studies Malcolm X Summary

Summary/Response

Malcolm X was from a world of full of crimes in New York City and became one of the most powerful African American leaders. He died at the age of 39 on February 21, 1965. He was shot and killed. The book “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” explains the life of Malcolm X. Malcolm was also didn’t know how to read, and write.

In “Prison Studies,” Malcolm X argues that being in prison, he became very knowledgeable. He was proud that he had got of hold of a dictionary to improve his penmanship. He has learned how to read, write, and learned many different word definitions. For instance, Malcolm X states that he couldn’t write in a straight line, read, and didn’t understand what words meant. In addition, Malcolm claims he didn’t know how many word insisted because he was reading the dictionary, and it contained millions of words. He articulates this idea when he states, “I written so much at one time, but I’d written words that I never knew were in the world.” He also believes that going to college has to many distractions. Like for organization such as “ fraternities, panty-raiding, and boola-boola,” doesn’t help student be successful as they should be. He says studying in prison was the best place to learn all his inability to read and write.

During his prison time, he had taught himself homemade education and became knowledgeable.

I agree that he had taught himself how to read, write and comprehend of what these words really mean. For instance, studying hours and hours will help you to be successful. Time is very important when its come to having an education. When you want to educate yourself, and that when you need to make a commitment to have time to study hours and hours. Malcolm was determined to make that commitment by studying up all day and all night. He even stated that when lights were off, there was a little light in his cell area that he would read in that spot on the

floor.
In addition, experts had told us that reading a dictionary is a really good book to read. It helps you increase your vocabulary, and know what the definitions mean while studying. Some might object, of course, on the grounds that people don’t often read the dictionary. So we don’t know the exact result of how many people can be successful by reading a dictionary. Yet I would argue that increasing your vocabulary would help when you are writing an essay or even reading a book.
Overall, then, I believe that Malcolm taught himself how to read, write, learned new words.