English

Daniel Abebe
ESL 100
Final Draft Essay
Malcolm X

To me, a hero is a person who speaks when the world take aims to listen, changes when the world needs to change, and acts when things need to get done. My hero is Malcolm X. He had courage, qualification, and great perseverance no matter how society kicked him or his family around, he stood strong.
First of all, Malcolms parents had a huge impact on his life. His father, a preacher, was killed by the Ku Klux Klan for disrupting the good Negroes. Furthermore, His mother was cheated out of the insurance money and went raging trying to keep food on the table and the raise from taking her children Malcolm and his brothers and sisters were split up. As a child, Malcolm had great sermon skills, screaming until he got his way. Despite all this tragedy, Malcolm had the courage to maintain living his life and became a good student in elementary and middle school. He had dreams of becoming a lucky lawyer someday. But one teacher, that Malcolm had favored, shattered these dreams in vindicatory one ignorant statement. He told him that this aspiration of becoming something of much(prenominal) a profession, was no realistic goal for a nigra this statement, that if told to any white man of that time, would have been thought to be true.



Malcolm soon turned away from school and all he had cared about.
In High School, Malcolm became rebellious. After he later dropped out, he became a hustler while going through left over(p) jobs. New York City was the place for this zoot suit wearing lousy boy. For four years he shifted between NYC, Boston, and Michigan. Soon Malcolm had gotten caught up the gang life and lost trace of his morals. He was pull down caught stealing from friends and family. In 1946 Malcolm was sentenced to 10 years in mama State Prison for the burglary he had recently committed. He use this time to self educate himself. He found the strength in himself to come out a survivor from his toss away sentencing. Malcolm even rewrote the alphabet...If you want to get a full essay, site it on our website: Orderessay



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