Malcolm X and Mike Rose

Malcolm X and Mike Rose, both have similarities and differences in their essays.  In Malcolm X's essay "Learning to Read," he changed his life through a homemade education to where as Mike Rose's essay "I Just Wanna Be Average," changed his through education at school.  Malcolm's essay was more about himself to where as Mike's was the opposite talking about himself as well as others.  The way Malcolm and Mike were brought up and taught was a huge difference.  Malcolm was taught while in prison by Elijah Muhammad who had become a role model to him, leading up to Malcolm becoming one of the most powerful leaders.  Mike however, had learned through others around him.  Similarities of the two essays are that they both wrote how education changed them.  Both writers were determined to learn regardless of the situations they were both in.  Malcolm X and Mike Rose were aspiring men with very different backgrounds that made something of themselves.