Reading Response to Malcolm X — Julian Georgi

I suppose it was inevitable that as my word base broadened, I
could for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to
understand what the book was saying. Anyone who had read a great deal
can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something:
From then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not
reading in the library, I was reading on my bunk (paragraph 8 pg1)

Explanation: I chose this block for a certain reason because it explains what kind of character Malcom truly is. After learning from the dictionary and studying words from it he’s not only gained a new ability but a new passion. This passion is his love got books and reading, after that connection was finally made his whole life changed. Books or knowledge can clearly change a person or the crave for it can also have an affect on a person. In the block of text I chose he even states that any free time he had it was spent on reading books either in the library or in his bed.

My homemade education gave me, with every additional book
that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and
blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an
English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was,
“What’s your alma mater?” I told him, “Books.” You will never catch me
with a free fifteen minutes in which I’m not studying something I feel
might be able to help the black man. (Pg6 paragraph 6)

Explanation: Malcom’s biggest problem with reading and education as whole is that it brings blessings and curses. The blessing being new found knowledge and the curse being learning the dark truth about the world around you. He whishes that the black man can read and gain the knowledge to not only better himself but for his people. Malcom is aware what the black race of America has to go through in the block of text I chose he says “with every additional book
that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and
blindness that was afflicting the black race in America”. He wants people to be like him to learn and expand their knowledge so then they can learn how to better themselves than harm.