Malcolm X/Franklin

I found that Malcolm X’s and Franklin’s essays were very similar in the way that both of them had a tremendous amount of self-drive and motivation to expand their word base and knowledge. They both had an incredible yearning for knowledge and education. Both of them more or less self –taught themselves through books they were had fairly easy access too. Both of them practiced what they learned via copying and writing it down in their own penmanship and words for later study and correction. Both also had fairly large obstacles and struggle’s to work through both publically, as they became well known and in their personal lives.

How they differed was Franklin had his father to sort of guide him along. His father also had the ability to expose Franklin to many different avenues of learning, doing apprenticeships, studying at schools, and also studying alongside distant and close by relatives.  Malcolm X did not talk of having any sort of guidance, because he didn’t really. He did not have family or friends to help introduce him to different avenues of knowledge, styles of learning or to offer guidance and direction. He only had himself and his willingness to accomplish what he did on his own.  They also obviously differed in time period.