Summary Of The Autobiography Of Malcolm X

In the Autobiography of Malcolm X the narrator tells about his life growing up in the 1920’s which was a time of great racial conflict between whites and blacks. Throughout the text the author uses words, structure, and style to add to the power and beauty of the text. In the first chapter of the book the author visualizes an event that occurred before he was born,” When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha, Nebraska, one night. Surrounding the house, brandishing their shotguns and rifles, they shouted for my father to come out.” (page 1). This passage starts off the text with a image that is very powerful since there is such a horrible history with the KKK and his family had experienced this firsthand. Malcolm also uses the name of the chapter, “Nightmare” to convey what his family was living in. There was an example of systemic oppression,” My father was also belligerent toward all of the children, except me. The older ones he would beat, almost savagely if the broke any of his rules … I actually believe that as anti-white as my father was, he was subconsciously so afflicted with the white man’s brainwashing of Negros that he inclined to favor the light ones, and I was his lightest child. Most Negros parents in those

Malcolm reflects the recent learning and compares himself to Paul from the Bible,” upon hearing the voice of Christ, was so smitten the he was knocked off his horse in a daze.” (page 166). This is when Malcolm Little begins to turn into Malcolm X since he converts to Islam and starts to recruit brothers into Islam and teach them Yacub’s History. In conclusion through the text Malcolm starts off as a Christen black man from Lansing who gradually turns into Malcolm X as he sees the social injustice and demands for