Background on the Autobiography of Malcolm X While autobiographies must necessarily be written while the author is alive, they are most often retrospective, providing the reader with a personalized view of some significant period in the author’s life. A real-time, unedited version of the author’s life is described as a journal. Biographies, on the other hand, may be written either during their subjects’ lives or after a subject has died. The biographical form allows an author a greater degree of objectivity on the life of the subject. An “as told to” autobiography provides the reader with the subject’s version of the truth of his or her life while the arduous task of writing is left to a professional writer.
Douglass in his essay states how he got hold of a book and read it whenever he got a chance. In his essay he states how he was interested in reading stuff that was related to his life for example, “Among much of the other interesting matter, I found in it a dialogue between master and his slave” (Douglass 429).Readers tend to read the text of their interest more frequently and relate it to their own personal condition in life. In Douglass’s text he shows how he got interested in reading that book as he states: “These were choice documents to me. I read them over and over again with unabated interest” (430). Readers loose their minds in a maze of thoughts and start feeling low in their lives.
He describes his writing of history as one that attempts to represent their ‘submerged, deflected, common’ interest. As he says, “History which keeps alive the memory of people’s resistance suggests new definitions of power,” (Zinn 635). I was a bit confused in reading this chapter. It would seem that Zinn felt the need to define his mission as a historian before the final chapters wrapped the book up. Nonetheless, I think he accomplished his goal of liberating the “people’s opinion” through this book.
After an accidental meeting, Forrester becomes Jamal's unlikely mentor, providing guidance to help the young man’s exceptional skills. Soon, Forrester’s harsh view of the world begins to change as both men learn lessons from each other about life and the importance of friendship. Forrester and Jamal may have a lot of differences but they also have many things in common. Forrester's passion for reading is reflected by the number of books. Lining his walls and stacked on the floor of his apartment.
Biography, chronological order, illiterate to litrate and led the world .Malcolm X, the author of “Prison Studies”, narrates about the time he has spent in prison which enables him to educate himself which in the end, changes his life. Malcolm started off by talking about the prison where his interest was ignited towards reading and writing. It was Bimbi, his fellow prisoner whom Malcolm tried to imitate who had a very good command in his language. It was then, Malcolm picks up an article and tires to read it but, but he couldn’t get past a few sentences before he realized that it was a different language. Malclm X () decides that he needs to have a grip on the language before reading articles: I saw that the best thing I could do was get hold of a dictionary – to study, to learn some words.
He borrowed a dictionary and copied every word , page after every page , reading and understanding as much as he could while copying , at the same time working on improving his handwriting . He was able to do this because he was in prison and had all the time in the world . Later , he progressed from the dictionary and started reading novels by well-read writers of history and philosophy (Malcolm X .What Malcolm X accomplished could be done just as easily in public schools . The only problem will be how to motivate and inspire the students to do what Malcolm X did and achieve what he was able to accomplish . To this end , teachers should not only be trained how to teach but also how to motivate .
Corey Taylor’s, Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good would make a good book for Cecil College freshmen to read as a summer reading project. This book would be a good choice for students to read for several reasons. This is a bold, nonfiction book written by a famous singer that has some humor to it and will also teach students to follow what they are good at to be successful in life. Several authors, psychologists and teachers have written related sources that support these reasons. Corey Taylor’s book talks about the “seven deadly sins” and how he has committed all of these sins in his life.
Alexie, himself, is telling the story about how he learned to read through comics, but is also explaining how it helped him understand. He goes into detail about how his house was full of books because his father loved to read. He was surrounded by books and things to read and could grasp the concept of reading. The main point, I believe, the author is trying to make in this article, is that there are many ways to learn new things without actually going to school. He learned from his fathers books, and comic books, and applied himself step by step.
However the reliability of this source is questionable as it’s a cartoon and the reasons as to why it was published are unknown. Source a, c, e, and f fail to agree or disagree with the statement. The sources just give information or talk briefly of the report and what is means but there is no mention of the reaction of the people or the government to the Beveridge report. The reliability of all three reports are also very debatable, as although from own knowledge we know what they say is true, each source is part of government speeches and may have been used as propaganda. Source b shows disagreement with the statement.
Although learning to read was very important for Fredrick Douglass’s path to freedom, his battle with Mr. Covey was the most important part of his journey because it marks the point when he stopped thinking of himself as a slave. Mr. Douglass’s education allowed him to learn about abolitionism and even teach others so that they too may be free men. Although this is an important skill,