Book Recommendation

20 Bridge st.

MB Winnipeg

June,12,2013  

Dear Najma,

Since you already recommended to me the book that you read, which seems interesting by the way, I would also like to recommend to you this great book that I just finished reading it. You already know how I have always admired Malcolm X  characteristic and nothing could reveal the interesting character he had more than his dairy. "The Autobiography Of Malcolm X  As Told to Alex Haley" is one of the greatest book that I have ever read. The book in general talks about Malcolm X and what made the great leader that he was. It start with an interesting chapter called "Nightmare", the first 5 chapters talks about his childhood and how it wasn't a regular one. These chapters tell us that being a black kid during that time of century wasn't an easy thing at all, suffering in life because of who you are and trying to escape from your identity something that those black kids would handle all their lives. In the middle chapters the author tells us how this black kid grow up to be a hard working young man. He had to work all the different kinds of jobs that black people worked at that time. From cleaning shoos to being a waitress and finally dancing in night clubs! All these jobs grow the feeling in those black young men that they are less than the weight man. After that Malcolm tells us about how he was dragged to alcohol and drugs like the most of the black people at that time, then he started to steal stuff without fear which made him finally caught by police and then be in prison for ten years and you can say that that this was the turning point in his life. He met a man who opened his eyes and encourage him to fill his mind with knowldge.Malcolm started reading books nonstop and I have always remembered his quote" People don't realize how a one book can change a man's whole life". The funny thing is that I always felt that Malcolm experienced freedom for the first time in his life when he was in prison! The interesting things keeps happening to him , he hear about something called Islam and then he start to believe that Islam is the solution for the racism . I don't want to spoil things on you anymore. What will happen to him? And how he become very famous very fast? How his speeches and ideas are going to change the whole nations ? Most important thing is how he turn up to be the man he was? You should figure out the answers by yourself and read this book that I'm sure you won't regret it. All I can say that you will definitely know at that time why I have always admired this person. Who knows maybe you will fell in love with him like I did!  


your sister,
Fatima