1.“When I had progressed to really serious reading, every night at about ten P.M. I would be outraged with the “lights out.” It always seemed to catch me right in the middle of something engrossing.” This scenario of the passage reminds my childhood when I also used to read Bengali novels book under a flashlight while everyone sleeping in the house. Sometimes my mom caught me and took me in bed forcibly. But this kind activities is now a memorize and Malcolm X Flashlights remind that my childhood.
2. I will be using my personal experience as Tan did in his story. If we share our personal experience then the audience will also know much more about our experience. Also, we write about experience then the audience will also get our point of view as a reader. However, using personal experience helps to determine our inner feeling which all the audience should experience. As Tan shares his experience with contrasting two languages we also get our point of view about his own feeling and experience. So this is the reason I think I will use personal expeirence.
It is interesting that Malcolm’s reminded you of your own childhood.