Summary Of Malcolm X Learning To Read

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The core idea of “Learning to Read” was to show the audience how literacies shape the world and the experiences we have in life. Malcom X explains that prison was what allowed him to experience literacies and how those literacies changed him. When Malcom X went to prison, he was unable to express himself in the form of letters. From there, he decided that he needed to improve his literacy skills so he could become articulate in, or even functional in writing. He decided that the best thing he could do was to get a dictionary to begin writing and trying to understand the words. Once he began reading and writing, he said, “...this new world opened to me, of being able to read and understand”(p 109). Malcom X opened a new world for himself. In

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