Malcom X

The first reason that the theme is different is because Malcolm X went to prison after he dropped out of high school and turned to drugs and violence; he was ignorant but not blissful. Without knowing, he was ignorant, but he was unhappy and raging out against everything and everyone. Before he was locked up he had no interest nor had he ever thought about teaching himself, or even learning at all, to improve his reading or writing skills. Even though his grammar was horrible, it looked like slang, and he wrote sideways and slow, it did not even

bother him. At that point, to him it was not even an issue. He soon realized all the extra time he had on his hands, that he had been wasting away sitting around in a prison cell, so he tried to pass the time by reading books. He found that he had not any knowledge of words enough to understand the ideas of what he was reading and in turn got very frustrated. So, to say that ignorance is bliss is wrong in this case because he was very ignorant but in no way happy or blissful.

Soon out of frustration and not knowing what he was reading, he decided to copy the dictionary. He wrote and learned every word in the English dictionary, A-Z. With his newfound discovery called knowledge, he returned to the same books he had earlier thrown aside and to his surprise, he fully understood and comprehended the readings. Malcolm, for the first time, felt completely and utterly free and ironically; he was still imprisoned. This shows that with his knowledge did not come responsibility. With his new knowledge he gained freedom. He finally understood the world and what was happening in his surroundings. When before, he had not a clue and not a care.

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Some topics in this essay:
Library Card”, Arnold Toynbee, Comes Freedom”, Homemade Education”, , Bliss” Wright’s, Comes Responsibility”, “with knowledge, “with knowledge comes, Knowledge Comes, piece history, wright’s article, strong opinion, knowledge comes, taught understand, malcolm taught,