Language In Malcolm X's Homemade Education

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Language is the transmitter of communication within one another. We share interests and swap information, utilizing the structure of language developed and assimilated on a regular basis. Self-oblivious regarding adaptation from an environment and gravitated from a diverse nation; that influenced us whether it is a great or limited effect on our way of being. An autobiography, “Homemade Education”, written by Malcolm X, an average hustler named Malcolm Little; as he was known before, stumbled upon struggling with interpreting passages and proclaiming his voice when writing letters, especially to the leader of the Nation of Islam known as Elijah Muhammad. With this intention, Malcolm X, who was an advocate of Elijah Muhammad and imprisoned; …show more content…
Similarly, “The Language of Silence”, written by Maxine Hong Kingston, who was a first generation young Chinese American immigrant, faced a dark and silent world. It began when Kingston entered kindergarten or as she would call it: American school; fortunately due to lack of knowing how to speak the English tongue. She struggled to comprehend cultural differences between Chinese and Americans and multitasking at the schools. As an illustration, Kingston’s art painting from school was coated in black paint during when her silence was at its “thickest”. However, not everybody can relate upon on why her paintings are filled with nothing but black paint, but in her imagination; she believed it was “so black and full of possibilities” (167). Above all, Kingston built a relationship with colleagues, she met at Chinese school and an American school by encountering social disparities that shaped her identity as a Chinese-American. Acknowledging the voice in ourselves; changes the integrity, our identity, and the aspect of significance in language; unlocking the access to

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