Malcolm X, Alexie, & Hooks

Summaries

Malcolm X: In Malcolm X's "Learning to Read", he attempts to tell the reader that learning to read helps you accomplish many things that you can do in your life time. He argues that bettering yourself by reading helps you gain knowledge in different things and helps educate yourself with the world and helps you understand others as well.
Sherman Alexie: In Sherman Alexie's article "The Joy of Reading and Writing", he attempts to explain to the readers that by picking up a book and reading, he had learned to stand out from the normal life style people perceived him to be because he was an Indian boy. He argued that by reading, it had saved his life and he now carries on to schools to bring children into the world of reading and help them do the same thing and further educate their knowledge as well.
Hooks: In Bell Hooks' article "Writing Biography", she attempts to explain to the reader that writing an autobiography is helpful for reflection of your past. She argues that by writing about the past, you are able to understand what happened and to easily let it go because now you know what you've done and now you realize that you can move from it.

Synthesis: Each of these articles all correspond with each other in the sense that they are not only autobiographies, but they are also about the coming forth of the way they've been educated and how they did it. The articles each go in description of their lives and how each of them learned to develop their readings and writings.

Opinion: I enjoyed all three of the writings. Auto biographies are usually more interesting to me because of the fact that I enjoy learning about people's lives and the obstacles they've overcome. Malcolm X is a significantly important man in the black community and I've always enjoyed hearing about what people like him have done to get their start. Sherman Alexie's article interested me in the fact that he didn't follow the typical lifestyle he was somewhat being pushed to do, but instead he broke out of that and bettered his life. I especially enjoyed reading Bell Hooks' because hers was more on her life and how she reflected from it and build her character because of the past.