Tuesday, December 16, 2008
A very boring speech!!!!
Yea I attempted to read another speech by Malcolm X, but this was just too boring. I feel like he was too repetitive and it was on the topic of religion, so i was just like blah blah blah. Don't get me wrong it was interesting to read considering alot of it had logistics and it did make me think hard..maybe too hard... but anyways yea i just kept reading the same stuff over and over again. Not to mention I looked at the top of the page and I was only on page 5 of 12. So, not bad... I guess, I mean I'd read half of it, but I couldn't read another word on how Christianity was not God's religion and how Judaism was Judas religion but not Jacobs...No thanks i didn't want a CCD class. So I closed the binder and opened his autobiography to read on about his interesting life in Boston. I really like the book so far because it evokes alot of emotion in me. It's actually funny because the book is like 450 pages long including the epilogue and it has really fine print so when I first got it my jaw just dropped, but I'm actually pacing myself pretty well and enjoying the read. Right now Malcom X is like 14 years old and he moved from Lansing down to Boston to stay with his half sister from his dad's side. It's 1937 so they have really weird slang words like my hair was "conked", which is just a kind of hair style from back then, and I wanted "slave", which means work. They do a pretty nice job at defining what the words mean though so thats good. I almost cried like 2 chapters ago too when his mother was put away into a psych ward and then he flashes foward and says how she hadn't even remembered who he was when he went to visit her last, and how he knew that would be the last time he visited her because something in him felt missing. Imagine that the woman who nurtures you and brings you into this world can't even remember you. It was really upsetting :[ Anyways off to read some more
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It is true the the life of a person is sometimes more interesting than their writing. I am glad enjoy reading the book. Seeing as how you mentioned you are on the part where he is only fourteen it may be too early, but I bet some of the speeches are probably written to reflect on events that happened in his life. It might make the read a little easier. I don't know. But great start.
ReplyDeleteYeah, speeches tend to be boring if you are not interested in the subject.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Belinda about a person's life more interesting than what they write.
I think we all need a little push in the beginning to get the momentum going because I am not satisfied with my author as well.
Anyways, I'm glad that you found something you are interested in.
Keep up the good work.