During his time in prison, the guards were always on his case, he clarifies that: “they monitored what I wrote to add to the files which every state and federal prison keeps on the conversion of Negro inmates by the teachings of Mr. Elijah Muhammad”(5). This quote is important because is uses pathos, and that is in a sense that X is realizing he feels oppressed in prison and that the law enforcement in there is looking down on his fellow people in the penitentiary. According to Aristotle, one of his three kinds of persuasion: “putting the audience into a certain frame of mind”(29). I feel that this can be along the same lines of X being in a thought of his personal belongings thus his letters being looked into. He expresses the way on how he sees the guards looking at his letters as if they are only keeping a close eye on his people instead of any of the other races. Malcolm finds himself as being looked at as the average black man with no way of wanting to learn, or in shorter terms, stereotyped because of the harsh times he had been living in. In fact, he states “the average hustler and criminal was too uneducated to write a letter,” this must mean that people looked at his culture as the average hustler but as himself, he tries to stop the stereotype from leading to
During his time in prison, the guards were always on his case, he clarifies that: “they monitored what I wrote to add to the files which every state and federal prison keeps on the conversion of Negro inmates by the teachings of Mr. Elijah Muhammad”(5). This quote is important because is uses pathos, and that is in a sense that X is realizing he feels oppressed in prison and that the law enforcement in there is looking down on his fellow people in the penitentiary. According to Aristotle, one of his three kinds of persuasion: “putting the audience into a certain frame of mind”(29). I feel that this can be along the same lines of X being in a thought of his personal belongings thus his letters being looked into. He expresses the way on how he sees the guards looking at his letters as if they are only keeping a close eye on his people instead of any of the other races. Malcolm finds himself as being looked at as the average black man with no way of wanting to learn, or in shorter terms, stereotyped because of the harsh times he had been living in. In fact, he states “the average hustler and criminal was too uneducated to write a letter,” this must mean that people looked at his culture as the average hustler but as himself, he tries to stop the stereotype from leading to