Malcolm X post 1

After reading the first two paragraphs in Malcolm X, I feel very moved about what Malcolm X has gone through. When his dad died, I felt the same emotions when my brother was struck by a car. I couldn't believe that only when Malcolm X was 6 that his father died. I could feel the intensity of emotion that Malcolm had after his loss. Also, when he talked about how his mother became so insane that she couldn't even remember her son's name. I thought to myself that now everyone knows his name and i could feel the childishness getting ripped from Malcolm's heart. I felt as if he has lost his childhood and has been abandoned by his loved ones and by God. When Malcolm X talked about the ridicule he got from all the white people, it reminded me of how I was oppressed in my elementary school. "Still shouting threats, the Klansmen finally spurred their horses and galloped around the house, shattering every window pane with their gun butts. Then they rode off into the night, their torches, as suddenly as they had come" (Haley, 1). When I was in elementary school, I was beaten on by other classmates because they thought it might be fun, and they would make racial remarks for no reason.

The book so far has been an interesting insight into Malcolm's life but also it has been a harsh beginning and hope to see that Malcolm can control most of the problems that present themselves to him  in the future.