Mr. X

This Malcolm X story is a much darker story then the Feross narrative. That’s not to say the Malcolm X story was not inspiring and incredibly impressive, I mean the man literally read and transcribed an entire dictionary. What I’m saying is he had to teach himself to read and write in prison while dodging guards at night so that he could continue his self created lessons. As he did this he was also developing quite a distain for “the white man.” So it’s amazing and fantastic for awaking a motivation in me, but it’s certainly no Cinderella fairytale with the light upbeat feel Feross had. Well maybe it could be one of the Grimm fairytales that always have that edge of darkness in them. That being said I got much more from this piece then the last one. I feel the style of writing is much closer to that of which I will do when it comes time to write my narrative. With Feross the layout is more like bullet points with a much more mechanical feel to the writing, where as this piece flows through beginning, middle, and end to tell a complete story and tell it as a story. This is defiantly the style I want to use. I don’t just want to tell you the facts of what and how I learned; I want to lead you through them on the same path I took to find and learn them.