Rhetorical Analysis of Malcolm X's Prison studies

Malcolm X thesis of self education is key to self empowerment is demonstrated mostly through pathos throughout the writing. He makes strong attempts at emotional persuasion with self achievement after just writing the first page of the dictionary all the way to writing the entire dictionary out to finally reading and understanding entire books. He also uses Pathos in a competitive way when speaking about the other prison debaters or when Bimbi would take charge of every conversation and how he would like to achieve the same. He establishes his ethos by referencing the dictionary and how well read he is in it and even uses logos analogy of a dictionary is like a encyclopedia. Making his Ethos seem like he knows the dictionary and the encyclopedia. He wraps up his story with " My homemade education gave me a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America." To establish himself as educated and to give a sense of understanding a knowledge base for his Ethos