The Auto Biography Of Malcoml X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

In the autobiography of Malcolm which is told by himself Alex Haley and Attallah Shabazz he describes his most personal experiences and what his ideas were on subjects about his life and his reasoning and his understanding of the situations. He goes back in his own life and tries to analyze why his father and mother ended up in the situations they were as well as him. He tries to analyze the different things he saw as a young child growing up not just in the white racist society but as well as the divisions within the black communities themselves and not to forget his family. He goes deeper then just retelling his life story and shows his emotions opinions and insights of how he viewed his past actions and actions of others. This all shows what he grew up around and what he learned while growing up. That was the main base of what drove him to believe and act as he did during the most known part of his live when he came to rise and publicly fight for what he believed in, spreading his ideas and beliefs and sharing experiences he had during that time as his father once did.

He starts out be describing his fathers situation of how the KKK was after him for teaching Marcus Garvey’s idea of the blacks returning to their homeland of ancestry because blacks cannot successfully accomplish or achieve independence and self respect and to leave America to the whites. In most part of the book Malcolm explains many of his experiences of places he had been to and the people he met. Due to his family troubles after having seen his father killed at the age of six to being taken away from his mother after she was accused of being crazy he experienced different lifestyles and learned about the corruption in the many places due to the racism of whites and the segregation of blacks within their communities. While he was facing all of this he was introduced to new people such as Shorty his new friend from Boston. He was later involved in new ways of life such as that flashy street life in Boston after finding himself a job the Roseland State Ballroom in the casino. He began to follow the trend wearing the clothes living it up going to parties and doing drugs but while all this was going on