Malcolm x was an activist who came from slavery descent. He was a man who went through many trials in life, with the white man, black man, the people he looked up to and would die for, the people who he brought together to fight the common enemy, and even sometimes himself. One of his biggest tests in life was him being in prison but he was grateful for what he gained from it. He gained a tremendous amount of curiosity and knowledge. He gained the ability to read and write and was able to do it for hours at a time, sometimes for up to fifteen hours a day. He read and copied the entire dictionary teaching him phrases and events in history he didn’t even know existed. This opened up the explorer in him while he was incarcerated. He just felt like his mind could find the answer to anything. While incarcerated he never stopped learning how to help the black man. He rather read in the isolation of his cell than in the library, as he did this he was teaching himself literacy and how to not be affected by ignorance. While he is locked up his mind is so free to new information he feels like he is outside those brick walls. He is allowing his mind to wander aimlessly in the literacy and he is loving it. With this narrative, I can gather that even incarcerated literacy can give you the freedom to get your questions answered from behind the wall.