My Preference

I liked Malcolm X’s educational narrative more than either Ben Franklin’s or Mike Rose’s. Malcolm X has a writing style that just feels so much more personal, like he is talking to you. You almost read it in his voice rather than your own. His Autobiography was hands down the most inspiring piece when it came to influencing my own Educational Narrative. When he talks about copying down the dictionary page by page I can feel all of his frustrations, then the turn where he starts to really feel his vocabulary and writing style improve and you want to get up and celebrate with him. I can also really identify with his constant reading to better himself as a writer. I myself read constantly and hope to always do so. I feel there will always be new techniques and styles I can learn from others peoples work, stuff that no amount of formal education may be able to teach me. The line “I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life.” Really speaks to me, and I think it goes right along with what I was saying about reading being incredibly important to anyone learning to write.