Sorry for this post being late. I have no excuse...
Anyway, I finally read "Saved" by Malcolm X and Alex Haley and its mainly about human rights activist, Malcolm X learning a lot more about the world through books and religion while he was in prison.
When he was in prison, he learned to read and write by looking at several books and he would get every chance he gets to read as much as he can. An example was when he would continue to read through the night holding a flashlight while looking out for prison guards. While he's in prison, he began to see the doing's of the white man throughout history against the black's. He also began to understand more about the religion of Islam and his more interconnection with the black race. In the end, he decided to speak up for his people on the wrongful ways of what the white man as a last message from Elijah Mohammed.
I thought it was something like that as I was reading it so if I misunderstood just tell me. As for how Malcolm X compares to Franklin, he knows all about the black race and what they been through so he, like Franklin, decided to change his ideal about his race in becoming better and stand on par with the opposite race in gaining knowledge and intelligence or something like that. The same can be said with Dick as well as he struggles to be more than just a boot-black and become successful. Although all three think the same, they all follow different paths in their lives.
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Hi Vanessa,
ReplyDeleteSounds like you got the basic idea about Malcolm X and how his empowerment through education and religion led to his battle to gain civil rights for African Americans (and later, human rights for all).
By the way, what does this sentence mean?
"In the end he decided to speak up for his people on the wrongful ways of what the white man as a last message from Elijah Mohammed."
As for your comparison of X's transformations with Dick and Franklin, do you see any differences in their experiences? Which of them seem more focused on changing their external self (i.e. how they present themselves to the world) and who seems more interested in changing themselves internally (i.e. improving their habits and the way they think and act)?
-Ariana