These two stories we have read are very different because of many reasons. Benjamin Franklin came from a background of employed, if not semi educated people. While Malcom X came from the streets, knowing mostly slang as his language. The two men had very different backgrounds in society and culture. Both men prospered from literature of all sorts, finding what they could and reading all that was available to them. Although the way they came to enjoy reading was very different from one another.
Malcom X came to read by a desire to learn to write. He wanted to share information with other people, to do so, he had to teach himself to understand words, and to write them. As for Benjamin Franklin, he first learned to read and write because it was his duty as his fathers son. In his life he was expected to become devoted to the church, before a financial downturn changed that. Once he knew he enjoyed reading and writing he had more resources in the free world (as opposed to Malcom X in prison) than Malcom X would have had in the free world.
...Just a few of the many, many similarities and differences.
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