Despite being incarcerated,Malcolm X was still able to educate himself more about the English Language.I was stunned when he mentioned that he had re-written the entire dictionary and read it loudly to himself afterwards considering the number of pages and words in a dictionary.Fortunately for him he was able to know a wide range of words,people,place and history from the dictionary.I believe it was his envy for Bimbi’s style of speaking and expressing himself gave Malcolm the idea of studying a whole dictionary. As stated” When Bimbi first made me feel envy of his stock of knowledge. Bimbi had always taken charge of any conversation he was in,and i had tried to emulate him”.Malcolm had envy for Bimbi not because of jealousy but rather he had taken Bimbi as his role model.I consider this to be determination and passion due to the fact that he was incarcerated he still made it no excuse not to educate himself and instead he had made up his mind to achieve his goals and feel free.He mentioned he felt so free and proud of himself on what he had been able to achieve in prison.”I do not think anybody ever got more out of going to prison than i did.In fact,prison enabled me to study far more intensively than i would have in my life had gone differently and i had attended some college.Due to his belief of how free he felt in prison he also believed colleges where full of distractions.He stated “I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions,too much panty-raiding,fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that”.

Malcolm took a very huge step in his life,considering the fact that it could have been a different story but rather he changed for the best in terms of his literature skills.Malcolm was able to turn from a man who could barely understand a word to a well educated man who can read and write.I am really positive that everyone has at least one thing he or she is not that good at,but with time and determination one can become if not perfect then very good at it.Malcolm made the exploring of new words something he mostly used most of his time with,in other words his hobby.I feel as though everyone can make time for reading and explore new words considering that one can never know all words but one can always learn new words and expand their vocabularies.Malcolm was able to achieve his goal in reading i believe him to be a mentor to all of us who intend to be very good in English language.

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