The book I read is on the autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm himself and Alex Haley. This book is about Malcolm and him as a person growing up. Growing up, he lived in many different places, such as Nebraska and Michigan. Michigan, while losing his father's figure at a very young age, his father died out of the hands of white people. And I'm not going to tell the specifics on it because that would be giving too much information.
That influenced his family a lot because his mom went through mental stress, mentally insane, and they put her in a mental hospital, which made Malcolm grow, infected him mentally, make him grow up in a broken household. then this would later on grow his hatred on white people because of what they did to him at such a young age. But after this all happened in Nebraska, but after Nebraska, his family moved to Boston.
And there, Malcolm lived a very unique style. He made most of his money by selling drugs and running numbers. He also was very into house burglaries and got arrested while doing a house burglary one time and got sentenced to prison.
and got sentenced to prison for a while but after he came out he was very influenced on um civil rights movement but not he he was he was part of the civil rights movement but what he represented was a black panther he didn't want to go about it peacefully he wanted to bring he wanted to show people that violence like he represented violence in a way
He was a leader of violence, not peace, as you would expect Martin Luther King Jr. to be. Malcolm X was the exact opposite of Martin Luther King. Malcolm's evolution was crazy. as a character was crazy and the way he looked at things had a different perspective
As a kid growing up, he didn't let anything that happened to him face him as much. But he only let it face him in a positive way to make change. To make equality for everybody. Well, not equality for everybody, but like... to have black people to see eye to eye with these white folks at the time. And moving through city through city, his personality changes every time he moves to a different city. As you can see as you read throughout the book, his heart becomes more cold and full of hatred.
And shows racism at its darkest. Shows Malcolm at his lowest point, but he grows and becomes more street smart. As he moves to different cities, as there's different sides to Malcolm, he evolves and becomes even smarter and thinks at a broader point of view each time.
The theme of this book will probably be revolution of the minority people through Malcolm's perspective, of course. He bought, he bought, which most definitely, which most definitely, what Malcolm did would most definitely be remembered throughout history. Because of his influence, he really didn't, because of him, we didn't really have to face segregation at such a bad...
It's such a bad way they did back in the past. It's more peaceful now thanks to Malcolm, man. And we're still facing it. We're still facing this discrimination now and then, but it's not as bad as it was in the past. But thanks to Malcolm, we don't have to face it at such a high rate, even though we're still battling oppression as of right now. Because we're not completely equal. We don't see eye to eye because the system still tries to put us down as a minority.
But Malcolm will forever be remembered for what he's done for us. But his revolution was very different, as I would say. And a motif would be representing how people view. View each other. View each other in this society, in Malcolm's point of view, in Malcolm's society. And the biggest symbol would be a type of hairstyle that they wore, which was called like...
It was called like a cone. It was called like a cone. It's like a hairstyle where black people were nappy. Or like a nappy hairstyle would put their hair. would, like, straighten their hair to look more like a white man so they could fit in with the white people so they wouldn't be looked down upon as a minority anymore. So they would... So they could be...
They thought that doing this hairstyle would be eye to eye, which represents the book throughout a lot. Because as you can see, every time Malcolm moves to a different city, you see these black people trying to fit in with the white people at all times. And Malcolm sees it as this isn't. And why don't we stick to our own culture, is what Malcolm's point of view sees it as. My theme compares to Colby's podcast on The Alchemist.
by the main character going through the same struggles as Malcolm, as both were searching for belonging. They were both searching for belonging based on their surroundings.
Also, The Catcher in the Rye by Tyler Yard. The book talked about... I mean, the book that he talked about compares to Malcolm's theme by the setting in New York and his struggle to fit in in New York because you can see that his character was centered around New York and involves a lot of bad language and like a... like a broken setting as he was growing up but this michael max documentary or biography was actually pretty amazing and i feel like everybody should read it
Because it influences people on such a high level that it opens your mind to different perspectives as a human being and that what it truly means, like how racist is truly a bad thing and that people should look upon it. through his point of view, a true leader.