“A Homemade Education” Malcolm X

Time Log: 10 minutes
Vocabulary:
Envy
1. A feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else's possessions, qualities, or luck.
Slang
1. A type of language that consists of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal, are more common in speech than writing, and are typically restricted to a particular context or group of people.
Articulate
1. (Of a person or a person's words) having or showing the ability to speak fluently and coherently.
Correspondence
1. A close similarity, connection, or equivalence.
Emulate
1. Match or surpass (a person or achievement), typically by imitation.

Summary: In “A Homemade Education” by Malcolm X, Malcolm X takes you through his uplifting journey while in prison of becoming more literal by aiding himself with books, and other materials the prison library gave him. Malcolm X started his educational expedition at Norfolk Prison Colony, where he read Elijah Muhammad’s teachings. Shorty Malcolm got his hands on a dictionary, where he began studying the pages, looking over all of the words that he had never knew even existed; furthermore, he began copying the words down on his tablets- word by word, a page a day. He would write it all down, then read aloud his own handwriting, until he became comfortable reading aloud. Even though he was stuck inside prison walls he felt as if he had never truly been free until he fully understood how “to read and understand literature”.

Analysis: Malcolm X has a very power touch to his writing that automatically interests you to his writing. Malcolm X’s text seeks to show the reader how education will set you free, and that you have the power to make your own destiny. Homemade Education describes Malcolm X’s wrestle and frustration while sitting in his jail cell feeling nothing but hopelessness. He felt more