Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X

Frederick Douglas has acquired the ability to read in a non-traditional environment that is not slave and free. Before he could read, he really could not doubt his position. He began thinking outside the box until he began to read and educate himself and began to "become enlightened" according to the definition of Emmanuel Kant; he said "from a self-generated minority Rise "and" enlightenment "was defined. Frederick Douglas wrote: "As I read, I can hate slavery and hate slavery ... When I am suffering from this tingling and torture of knowledge, this knowledge is I opened my eyes to see horrible holes and revealed the scary dragon's teeth ready to attack me (my bondage and my freedom ch.XI)

Likewise, Malcolm X was in a state of oppression when he started his education, which allowed him to achieve similar enlightenment like Frederick Douglas. Like Douglas, Malcolm X started with a bit of reading and writing skills. But they all strongly desire to learn. For Malcom, reading was that he ran away from prison, which helped him spend his time. As he said, "I have been away from prison ever since, and if I am not in the library, I am reading my shop" (3). Reading makes it possible to allow him to access books to build his own vocabulary and help them understand slavery atrocities. This eventually allowed him to reach a higher level of thought and ultimately became a leader in the African American community. Both of them had a humble beginning when it came to their education. With a small resource like Frederick Douglas, Malcolm X can continue to receive education and form an enlightenment form that will benefit "black people" and help them (Malcolm X 6)

Most people learn to read and write using classrooms and classroom workbooks. Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X do not have these benefits. Frederick Douglas and Malcolm X have major obstacles, but reading and writing are possible. There are some differences in literacy rates, but similarities are most prominent. They all learned their own reading and writing, became an independent thinker in the process, which had a great influence on others. Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X are very witty and independent in the process of literacy skills. They are diligent because they spend more time they learn. "Because slaves were taught to read ... this is almost an unacceptable crime," the slave owner deliberately did not allow education as a means of slavery repression (Douglas 146). His mistress did not understand this habit and taught him alphabet before her husband stopped class.

By reading and writing, Frederick and Malcol continue to live in the process of growth. Both Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X noticed that the knowledge of reading and writing by Hend Frederick makes him smarter and smarter. Rather than becoming a slave like him, he saw something better with knowledge. He wants to be better than a slave better than a slave. However, reading and writing as Malcolm X opens a new world. It is better than using street wear with gorgeous clothes and crime.

In the last analysis, as a story of Malcolm autobiography and Frederick Douglas, Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X both represent the importance of learning how to read and write about their personal development and social definition. Consciousness, abolition and its role in civil rights movement. They explained that words have the ability to move people, change people, and more importantly to release them. Malcolm X said, "I have never lived freely in my life" (11), "Reading has changed my way of life forever ... When I wake up in my heart, You can last long. " Hobbies are enthusiastic about spiritual energy "(paragraph 40). The permanent importance and centrality of these works against African-American literature, especially American literature, generally supports the author's conclusion.