| Describe It | Malcolm X was an African-American activist, but before that his life was a journey full of obstacles. He was a person with ambition who learned and educated himself while in jail through the use of the dictionary and his own unique ways of learning. He ended up in jail due to selling drugs on the streets in New York and he wanted to make a change and help the blacks, but he realized that he wasn’t educated and didn’t have the skills to translate his message and ideas to the crowd because he was illiterate. This is what encouraged him to learn and educate himself. |
| Trace It | Malcolm X was a black who didn’t get the opportunity to go to school and learn due to racism. He was discouraged by his white teacher that it wasn’t “realistic” for a black to become a lawyer. This had a huge impact on him that he dropped out of school, but not for long. He didn’t go to school and neither finished it, but he educated himself through the use of the dictionary while in jail. The brutality and unfair treatment of blacks pushed Malcolm to educate himself so that he could help bring a change and that’s what he did. His education brought him respect and he was able to fulfill his goal to a certain extent because he was shot so wasn’t able to finish it. |
| Map It | This relates to Frankenstein because even Frankenstein had to learn on his own just like Malcolm X, but Malcolm used the dictionary and Frankenstein used his experiences. They both weren’t taught anything from another person, but by themselves. This is also related to Bach because Bach said school wasn’t for everyone, but he he also said that when you need something you will work for it and that is related to Malcolm X. He really wanted to help the black community, but due to his lack of knowledge he wasn’t able to and since he really was determined to help them he learned on his own to help the society. |
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I am interested in the Frankenstein and Malcolm X comparison. I want to encourage you to get more text based in your brainstorming and thinking b/c your thesis will need to be more focused. (For example instead of mentioning Bach as a side note, I’d rather you have maybe pointed out specific textual commonalities between Frankenstein and the excerpt from Malcolm X’s text.)