Tuesday, August 25, 2015

pg. 127 1&2

1- Q: Who seems to be Malcolm X's intended audience? How do you know?
     A: I believe Malcolm X's intended audience was the prison population. He used his time very wisely in prison. Whenever I watch tv shows about people in prison, I never see them reading or writing down the dictionary. He used his time in prison to educate himself, and it still be a pretty good education. I believe his intended audience is the prison population because of how well he used his time in prison. He went from being not a very good person to a very successful person. He didn't attend a hard university or any college at all for that matter, and yet he was still a very successful person.

2- Q: How does Malcolm X define literacy? How does his definition compare to school-based literary?
     A: Malcolm X defines literacy by reading all the time. He says he never goes anywhere without a book. If he has a couple of minutes to spare, he will be spending those minutes reading. When he was sitting in prison and was trying to communicate with Elijah Muhammad, he couldn't. He realized he didn't know many words. It was then that he ordered a dictionary from the prison library and began writing down every word and its definition, including punctuation. He soon had the whole dictionary written down. A school based definition of literary is being able to read and write. The definition doesn't say how much you can read or write, just that you can do it and then you are literate. Malcolm X was able to write the whole dictionary and read hard chapter books, from teaching himself.

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