SAVED

I find it funny that despite being a power point in school and creating a name for himself in his community as well as his job, it was when Malcolm went to jail where he finally declared himself truly educated. Malcolm is a man of which I don't understand or cannot place logic behind the events that he goes through and how he responds to them. Your father dies, your mother goes into hysteria, your'e sent into a detention home, then to reform school and you become one of the smartest among your classmates. Then he moves to Boston, which is a mainly black community, and gets a conk to get the hair of a white man. Gets a job, lives a decent life with his step sister, but decides to become a hustler. So now he is imprisoned and this is where he decides to be educated? Perhaps it's just me but why is he such a conflicting person? How is it that all of these events happen through his life and its in prison where he finds religion and education instead of degrading him even further than before? You would expect someone who goes to jail to be dumb, traumatic, and lost when he leaves. But yet Malcolm leaves jail a better man than when he went. What is it about Malcolm that allows him to persevere through desperate times in his life, make bad decisions, but yet benefit from them?