“When I had progressed to really serious reading, every night 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.
Fortunately, right outside my door was a corridor light that cast a
glow into my room. The glow was enough to read by, once my eyes
adjusted to it. So when “lights out” came, I would sit on the floor where I
could continue reading in that glow.”
When Malcolm X started to seriously read, he would always get engrossed within the book at the time of lights out. To improvise for light he would use the glow from the corridor to continue with his read. His determination to gain knowledge and become educated from reading allowed him read throughout the night and to go as far as to sit on the floor to use a small sliver of light to read. Him being so encaptivated in his read keeps him driving to finish the book regardless of the time.
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