In describing how he worked toward the goals of becoming literate and knowledgeable, Malcolm X touches on a variety of important issues related to developing thinking and language abilities. We can analyze some of the issues raised by answering the following questions:

Malcolm X describes the process of how learning words from a dictionary sparked a hunger for learning that lead to his being able to “pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying.” Explain the importance of his hunger for knowledge in terms of how it impacted his life.