1.What stood out to me the most was at the very end when he said that even though he was in prison he was truly set free. I think this is ironic because when you are in prison you’re not supposed to be free you are held captive, but in prison he found a new world and he fell in love with this world. I think this was lingering in my mind because he made prison sound like it was a very pleasant experience and that nothing bad goes on in there. Also it was impressive that he was able to learn so much in there. He picked up a dictionary and copied it word by word and copied it exactly how it was page by page. That’s very impressive to me and the fact that he said by the end he has written around 1 million words. I can tell that he really fell in love with writing and literature and all type of reading because the way he talked about it and the way he would read all night even if it was past the bedtime.
2.The one thing I want to take away the most from all of these literacy narratives is the fact how you can jot down a lot of memories and write about them and then have A big main idea connect them. Also I like how you can kind of jump from one language to another and I like the idea to show readers so they can understand how your life is lived or how the situation at a particular location is. Even if the reader doesn’t understand the language they can see the phrases or words you use. Or even now with Malcolm X rebel you can talk about a particular time in your life and how you grew and learned. How you found your passion, how you learn to love that passion, how you practice and grew by doing the passion, where you learned that passion, and the type of struggles you went through.
That scene about his freedom really had me thinking for a second.
I think this shows the unique strength that Malcom X had, being imprisoned and deciding to copy word for word a dictionary, taking up weeks and weeks. That shows a lot of dedication and self control. I don’t think he was saying prison was a pleasant experience, it was more a reflection of how Malcom X was able to turn his imprisonment into a positive experience.