Benjamin Franklin VS Malcolm X

After reading both autobiography’s of Malcolm X and Benjamin Franklin, I personally felt as though  they had a common love for reading and writing. They both took furthering their ability to read and write into their own hands. However, I did not feel as though their ways of writing were in the least bit similar. I enjoyed reading Malcolm X’s autobiography and getting wrapped up in his personal excitement about learning to read. While reading Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography I noticed it was hard to stay focused. His style of writing was hard to understand and sometimes left me reading the sentence multiple times to try and figure out what his point was. Noting the footnote in Franklin’s autobiography, I understand “that many of the spellings and ways of speaking which were correct in Franklin’s time are different form our own”. However, I still felt uninterested in his autobiography. While reading about Malcolm X’s educational experience, I felt the want to further tackle my own goals. I felt the need to open a book and read just because. I respect Ben Franklin; however his [time era’s] writing technique is just not something that interests me.