Malcolm X Blog 4 (Summary and Conflict/Conclusion)

Im at the end of my book and it takes quite a sad turn. Malcolm X has been assassinated by a group of people while he was on the stage. He had been with a group of people including his wife. Many people had witnessed Malcolm X being shot in front of them but did nothing. Then there was a photographer who had taken some photos of men tearing apart Malcolm X's clothes and loosening his tie, and giving Malcolm X mouth to mouth respiration. This book took many tragic turns and this one hit me the hardest.

After reading this book I had came across one main theme in the book. I had realized that the theme had been that even though things come across in your life that you need to be perseverant. I think that this is the theme because in the book Malcolm had gone through several problems such as becoming an orphan, committing several crimes, losing one of the most important people in his life, and making drastic changes to his life. All though he had gone through several problems he had persevered through them and made the best of his life and things that he could do. Malcolm X had become one of the most well known civil rights leaders of the 1930s-40s. These problems helped shape him into a better person and made him think a way he hadn't thought before. These problems had also taught him more things and gave him new morals that he hadn't followed before.

My final thought after reading this book was that I think I want to look into more books written by the author Alex Haley. The way he writes pulls me in and engrosses me in the book and just makes me want to read more of the books written by him.

Malcolm X Blog 2 (Summary and Again and Again)

In the book Malcolm X had gone through several problems and bad experiences. He had done behaviors many times without caring or thinking about consequences. He had done drugs several times now and he had then started to sell drugs. He had then been arrested which had put him in jail for a while and that formed him. He had then converted to the Nation of Islam as his religion. The Nation of Islam had helped form him as a man and change how he acted for the better. These things had made Malcolm a better thinker and actually thought things through and grown from his experiences.

In my book I had started realizing something had kept happening again and again. Malcolm X had been repeating crime and crimes over and over. Malcolm X had moved to New York and that's when his crime life had started. He had began to do many different crimes all over the area of crime. He had done things such as gambling, drug dealing, pimping, robbery, racketeering, he had also done sexual acts with other men, normally for money. These behaviors had been repeated from the time that he was 14 to the time when he was 21 which was when he had finally been incarcerated

Malcolm X Blog 3 (Summary and Contrast and Contradictions)

         So far in my book Malcolm X had found out about Elijah Muhammad breaking rules and code and finding out that he had committed adultery. This had torn Malcolm X away from the Nation of Islam. This had changed and formed Malcolm X majorly because he had looked up to Elijah Muhammad. Now he has lost his source of inspiration and courage. This had made Malcolm X think and he had to think about his life now and how far that he had came. This made Malcolm X have to consider many things in his life and consider many things that happened to him.

        In my book Elijah Muhammad had been an inspiration to Malcolm X. He had been following him without knowing Elijah was against what he was for. He had been found out for committing adultery. This helps us to show that he was hypocritical and went against himself. It also shows how that Elijah had contradicted himself. He went against the codes and rules that they have under that religion and let people down by doing so.  This helps me to understand how people go against what they say and contradict themselves might be people that you look up to.