![]() X by Ilyasah Shabazz is an in-depth look at the popular activist Malcolm X’s life before the reform and the protest. Before going through a religious reform, after seeing his father be murdered and his mother taken away by government officials, Malcolm Little decides there isn’t much left to do in his life, and runs away to a life of dancing, pretty girls, and reefer. Soon he starts a stint of robbing rich families to sell items for cash. After a run-in with the law, facing jail time, Malcolm decides that it’s about time he turns his life around, and finds that reform through religion, and finds religion through another man locked up. I found this book while browsing through a pile of older books I had. I had bought the book a few months before but never had the time to read it, so I figured that would be a good way to get my reading in. I immensely enjoyed the book, because instead of having to read a boring biography, I got to read the story as if it was a flashback, all in the first person and making it almost seem like it was a fictional book. After reading, it was hard to process the fact that that’s what a religious reformer’s life was like before he began his career, but it was still, all in all, a very nice story because now I know all the hardships that Malcolm X had to face before he rose up and became the man we all know him for. -AJ, grade 10
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