Question

At the beginning of the excerpt from his autobiography, Malcolm X says, “In the

street, I had been the most articulate hustler out there, I had commanded
attention when I said something," but the level of his literacy was no longer
adequate for him to meet his goals. What motivated Malcolm X to improve his
literacy, and what aspects of his literacy did he improve?

Answer 1

He became motivated to educate himself after he noticed how his intellectual prison friend named "Bimbi" was able to take hold of any conversation he was a part of simply because of how well-read he was. Malcolm X copied down dictionaries simply for the sake of learning how to write and to learn the meaning of words.

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