Essay About Malcolm X And Elie Wiesel

Malcolm X Little
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Malcolm X, first known as “Malcolm Little” was born in Omaha, in 1925. He was a human rights activist, and his Autobiography starts with the pregnancy of his mother and further describes his childhood in Michigan. His fathers death occurred in a dubious situation (whites murdered his father as well as other family members) that had a great impact on his and his mothers life (as her mental health deteriorated). Malcolm Little began involved in crime related activities and he was arrested and kept into prison for about eight to ten years. The circumstances of Littles had a great influence on his personality he converted into Islam in the prison and later on after getting released from the prison he emerged as a National Spokesman after his affiliation with Elijah Muhammad & Nation of Islam. He became an activist for the rights of the Black Muslims in Africa. In 1964, he converted from the Nation of Islam to the Sunni Islam, and offered a pilgrimage in Mecca and then traveled in Africa for the preachings of the Oneness of ALLAH. Throughout his life, Malcolm has been highly influenced by the circumstances prevailing around him. He has angry views about the whites in America which he expressed publicly and denounced many anti-whites movements for getting rid of the whites treatment to the blacks. He was assassinated in 1965 during his preach in “Harlems Audubon Ballroom” (X & Haley, 1999).Elie Wiesel has experienced the loss of his family and friends (their deaths) as well as his innocence was also killed during the young age and his believe on God. It reveals that a person should be sensible to accommodate the sorrows with wisdom and face the tragic ups and downs of life. Wiesels personal life is deprived of brutal, shocking variants and is mainly described and depicted in his 100 pages work named as “Night”. The work is the evidence of his memories, his losses, and his wounds that he got in his young age. The poem further also evident the “Jewish Sergey Bermeniev People” and further expresses the life and death circle. The work is clearly conveying the psychological as well as the emotional injuries of those who have to carry the burden of the survival.