Wednesday, April 9, 2008

malcom x chapters 6-9

in chapter six malcom moves into this boarding house that is ran by prostitutes and every now and then his old friend sophia stops by to see him and sophia did not like the fac tthat malcom was living in a whore house but he told her that she should sit down and try to get to know some of the girls instead of judging her them so sophia befirends one of the girls and they get close so once sophia return home she marries this white men and writes malcom to let him know that she has gotten married and malcom is very shocked so he asks his friend what he thinks about the whole situation and his friend said that a white woman either is with a man because of his looks or the money so don't trust them. in the next chaoter malcom returns to boston to visit shorty, shorty is trying is trying to ge this band off the ground and he happens to run across sophia but their encounter is not how it used to be because of what is going on in world war 2, when malcom was int he army he told the psychitrist that he was going to lead a black gang that would murder whites so he was discharged from the army then he started to use harder drugs and begin to rob people when his brother reginald moved with him he got him a job doing the same thing he was doing. In chapter 8 it seems if malcom is just completly out of control he is using drugs now more then ever and he is also doing illegal jobs like transporting betting slips. transporting liquor and a variety of toher things he also worked for this madam who is something like a pimp malcom will steer whit emen to a eluded place where they can have their sexual fantasies performed as malcom starts using drugs ona daily babsis he also plays numbers on a daily basis with a west indian man and little did malcom know was that the man would come back to kill him when he thought malcom had earned some of his money so when malcom runs into the man he does not shoot malcom he just scares him up and the same day malcom pushes a drug dealer in the face and soon after both the west indian and the drug dealer are looking for malcom to kill him. Shorty thens come and resques malcom and takes him back to boston wehn malcom meets his sister ellen againshe cannot beleive her eyes and ears because she was not used to seeing malcom behave that way cursing all the time an dressing like a street dude so malcom tries to stop using drugs but it didn't work he soon started using them again..... so him and sophia started back talking and they came up with a burgary ring sophia and her sister would gho to white neighborhoods acting as if they were salespeople and scope out the house and malcom and shorty would come back later and rob them... but a couple days after sophia and her husbnd set malcom up to get caught.

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