Learning to read
                      In “Learning to Read”, author Malcom X discusses how he learned to read and interpret his reading materials. As Malcom spends years in jail he came to realize the joy of reading a simple dictionary. To him books were a way to see the world and understand peoples point of view. As he read more he became fascinated with history. He informed himself as much as he could about events that occurred. A subjected that had a great impact on him was black history. He was fascinated, horrified, and loved every moment when reading about the subject. It was a challenge to find facts about black history because many white people considered there not to be any history in black men. The more Malcom read the more captivated he became and would spend as much time as he could reading and informing himself. He saw jail a time of learning and informing himself as much as he could, Malcom would study up to 15 hours a day. Malcom learned that reading was the best way to find facts about the world and spend every moment he could learning and trying to understand history as best he could.
                    I found the essay “Learning to Read” attention-grabbing. At first like any essay or book it seemed boring. But the more I read the essay the more interesting it became. The way Malcom described the joy of reading was very interesting. He would question peoples actions and read more of why they acted that way. His passion for black history was fascinating, as he described the horrors they went through it made me picture every moment as though I was there. It made me question why white man who called themselves Christians would commit such atrocity? I really liked that Malcom came to understand why other races, such as Chinese and Africans, came to hate white man. His passion for reading and how he comprehends the information he reads is motivating, he described reading in such a way that it made me want to read more about what he has to say in the matter of black history.