Summary Of Malcom's Literacy Behind Bars

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In the literacy narrative, “Literacy behind Bars,” Malcom X’s thesis is that finds the true importance of life through reading and educating. Listening to well-read inmates in Charlestown Prison, Malcom’s journey of a new lifestyle approaches. “I saw that the best thing I could do was get a hold of a dictionary to study, to learn some words” (para.3). From reading almost twenty-three consecutive hours in a day, Malcom begun understanding a world beyond anything he knew.
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The apparent audience for Malcom’s literacy narrative is readers, inmates, and non-readers. One question Malcom elicits, is college troublesome with too many distractions to attack one’s ignorance through a book?
The literacy narrative is presented in three sections.
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