There are more than one destination that can either be how you wanted it or be totally unexpected. You never know the outcome of a journey. Just like with Malcolm X’s “My First Conk,” Jeannette Walls’s “The Glass Castle,” and Jon Krakauer’s “Into The Wild.” All outcomes of a journey with a successful destination. The journey itself is more important than the destination because only the lessons you learn come from the journey such as curiosity, identity, and courage. Curiosity is one of the many lessons learned from a journey. In Malcolm X’s “My First Conk” its states, “This was self degradation: when I endured all of the pain, literally burning my flesh to have it look like a white man’s hair” (Malcolm X 2). The burning curiosity Malcolm