Summary Of Malcolm X Word Choice

The author is expert in understanding how to convince the reader. Therefore, his use of word choice perfectly fits with the reader's mind. In chapters 1 and 2, it mainly focuses on introduction, where it talks about the Malcolm X’s childhood conflicts. In the beginning of the text the author points out the conflicts that Malcolm X had faced throughout his life in Nebraska. Like for example, when the KKK galloped up their home for his father to make him come out of the house. Malcolm X and his families rival forced them to get out of the town and leave to their African homeland. At the top of page 2 it states that African Americans could never gain independence and self-respect, there they should leave to their homeland of origin, which is Africa. In the second chapter, his life tend to get worse. He feels the struggle that all African Americans tend to have. He wants to become a lawyer which Mr. Ostrowski tells him not to and become Carpenter. This makes him to think a lot, it starts tread around his mind. This details given by the author sums up what the reader should think of, which is the tragic moments of Malcolm X’s life. The rest of the

chapters basically, build on one another.
Later in chapters 3 and 4 is about the Malcolm X’s visit to Boston, looking like a country man instead of urban fashion.

He tends to seek for a job here in Boston. He lives with his half-sister, Ella, who encourages him to explore the city before tying himself down to a job. Later, in chapter 4 Ella gets Malcolm a job as a clerk at a drugstore in Roxbury Hill. Malcolm hates the middle-class atmosphere, but his patron named Laura, a studious high school student, stands out from the others. They become close friends and this close friendship ended up with going to dancing, because Laura is a good dancer and she enjoys it while Malcolm is strange to this type of life. The point was here to show the dominance of systemic oppression, because you just can’t always be as yourself, the system makes you want it wants you to

do.
In chapter 5, He later changes his job as washing dishes on a Boston to Washington train line and then sells sandwiches as a porter on a Boston–New York train line. Then in chapter 6 he finally finds his permanent job, Malcolm moves to a rooming house run by prostitutes. Malcolm befriends the women and learns a great deal about the psychology of men from them. Later in chapter 7, Malcolm gets involved in the narcotics, the narcotics in Harlem knows Malcolm too well for him to resume his drug-dealing there, so he begins a to rob. Malcolm also begins bargain guns and starts using harder drugs, primarily cocaine, to prepare for jobs and to deal with the stress they cause him. Also another example of systemic oppression, this shows how he had to faces challenges to survive.
Chapter 8, again this systemic oppression flagelo, makes him to find variety of odd jobs in Harlem. For six months he transports betting slips for the numbers lottery system. In chapters 8 and 9, Malcolm shows us the depths to which he sinks in Harlem so that we can understand the dramatic nature of the education and conversion he subsequently undergoes in prison. His statement that “all of our experiences fuse into our personality” (page 150) reflects his belief that he must understand his past to understand his present.
Lastly the chapter 10 and 11 sum up the language that Malcolm uses in telling his story shows how his perspective has changed since the time of the events that he describes. The younger Malcolm views his life in terms of absolute good and evil. Accordingly, he uses strongly opposing terms, such as “white” and “black” and “good” and “bad,” in his descriptions. He sees the world according to these definite pairs.
As a conclusion we see that the author mainly focuses on giving the feeling of the struggles and conflicts of Malcolm X, vivid descriptions of the texts that pops up an imagery in the readers mind. This style makes the content look perfect and doesn’t confuse the reader and it convinces.