“Learning to Read”

My reaction to the text was impressed and interested. I observed how Malcolm X was annoyed at the inconvenience of not being able to effectively communicate. Details from the text that made a strong impression on me were the details about how he educated himself all by himself without the use of any teachers or classical, formal, normal old styles of education. Another item that made a strong impression on me was how he spent his time in prison so productively instead of being bitter and wasting his life inside there doing useless things that would be of no benefit to him. The author’s description of “a homemade education” is learning from reading as many books as he can. Also, he copied and wrote down definitions of words from the dictionary in order to expand his vocabulary to greater depths. I can identify with the elements of this narrative such as the author’s fascination with being an obsessive reader along with being intrigued in increasing my vocabulary.