malcolm x and richard right
In the story “Discovering Books” and the story “Learning to Read”, the main characters Richard Wright and Malcolm X grow up with racism all around them. They both are blinded from their dreams of becoming something they wanted. Malcolm’s dream was to become a lawyer, and Richard’s dream was to become an author. But the racist people who were the northern whites felt threatened by their presence as a society. In “Discovering Books”, Richard is born to a family that lived in poverty. He experiences hardships that most people cannot even dream of living. He lives in the middle of a racist time. As Richard matured and began to realize the biased opinions of so many against him and his people, he is confused. After he sees that he is limited as a person because of his color, he fights back. His reading created a vast sense of distance between him and the world, he tried to make a living as an author. He writes his first novel called “Native Son” in 1940. And in 1953 he writes his second novel “The Outsider”. Which described and African–American involvement with the Communist Party in New York. And in 1954 writes his book “Black Power”. This was a commentary on the emerging nations of Africa. In the story “Learning to Read”, Malcolm X describes how he educated himself while he was in prison and how it changed his whole life. His interest in learning how to read and write increased because of one of his prison inmates whose name was Bimbi. Bimbi took control over all conversations because of his huge knowledge. This made Malcolm X kind of jealous and motivated him to start learning. He started to copy a whole dictionary, starting on page one in the a’s section. He wrote every word even the punctuations on each page. Malcolm did this everyday and his penmanship improved so did his knowledge. He wrote and memorized the whole dictionary and learned a lot of new words. As he learned more and more he could not stop reading anymore. He found the desire of his