Literate, literate is the ability to know how to read and write. Most people in the United States must attend to school to learn how to read and write for many reasons. Becoming literate gives more knowledge to a person for their own lifestyle and for future or current accomplishments. It is highly recommended for people to learn and write to acknowledge their surroundings and even their rights. Both authors, Frederick Douglass and Malcom X, are two writers who were restricted from literacy yet achieved it regardless of their different, educational levels, lifestyle, and resulting thoughts. Similarly, Douglass and Malcom X impulse themselves to learn literacy throughout the time they were incarcerated in their own way. During that time they
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His education level was very minimal due to the only education he had received was from his mistress who taught him the alphabet. After teaching him the alphabet, Douglas mentions in his article “Learning to Read and Write” that his mistress “... to her satisfaction, that education and slavery were incompatible with each other.” His mistress decided to teach him no more reading leading Douglass to hide books from his mistress. Unlike, Malcom X was an actual prisoner, who had learned more than just the alphabet thanks to his educational level no more that the eighth grade. Malcom X had the ability to read during the day without having to hid books and that aspiration he had for learning literacy. The educational level in these two authors was very little or none in order to accomplish the ability to know enough of how to read and …show more content…
Douglass, again, was a slave who knew a bit about reading but not how to write making him first learn how to ready and then how to write while, Malcom X was the opposite. Malcom X first learned how to write then how read, even more what he wrote in his copy book. Douglass says he learned from “...little white boys whom I met in the street” and Malcom X learned from a dictionary he was able to get a hold of in the prison. In his article “Literacy Behind Bars”, Malcom mentions that with the copying “…I’d written words that I never knew were in the world”, also remembering their meaning and helping him improve his handwriting speed. While both authors were enclosed in their own way of being imprisoned they also had different thought of their points of views of their
His education level was very minimal due to the only education he had received was from his mistress who taught him the alphabet. After teaching him the alphabet, Douglas mentions in his article “Learning to Read and Write” that his mistress “... to her satisfaction, that education and slavery were incompatible with each other.” His mistress decided to teach him no more reading leading Douglass to hide books from his mistress. Unlike, Malcom X was an actual prisoner, who had learned more than just the alphabet thanks to his educational level no more that the eighth grade. Malcom X had the ability to read during the day without having to hid books and that aspiration he had for learning literacy. The educational level in these two authors was very little or none in order to accomplish the ability to know enough of how to read and …show more content…
Douglass, again, was a slave who knew a bit about reading but not how to write making him first learn how to ready and then how to write while, Malcom X was the opposite. Malcom X first learned how to write then how read, even more what he wrote in his copy book. Douglass says he learned from “...little white boys whom I met in the street” and Malcom X learned from a dictionary he was able to get a hold of in the prison. In his article “Literacy Behind Bars”, Malcom mentions that with the copying “…I’d written words that I never knew were in the world”, also remembering their meaning and helping him improve his handwriting speed. While both authors were enclosed in their own way of being imprisoned they also had different thought of their points of views of their