how he influenced later in his own life. An example of this is in The Autobiography of Malcolm X where Malcolm says "but still the image of him that made me proudest was his crusading and militant campaigning with words of Marcus Garvey." (9). Malcolm's father leaving him was very influential because he never had that guidance that a father gives his children, but more importantly that his father was killed by the white Black Legion. The Black Legion was a hateful group much like the Ku Klux Klan, but they wore black robes instead of white robes. The killing of his father by the Black Legion stood in Malcolm's head as he gets older and affects the way he thinks of white people. The fact that the insurance company would not give his mother the money that she deserved because they found his father on the streetcar tracks. So he obviously bashed himself in the head and stumbled over to the tracks to commit suicide. This was just another reason in Malcolm's head why the white people are the devil. The way that his father was laid half dead on the streetcar tracks by white people who just let him suffer half dead. The event of his father's death just put more and more aggression towards white people in Malcolm's life.One of the most important events that shaped Malcolm's life was when Mr. Ostrowski, his eight-grade teacher, told him he should be realistic in life. In The Autobiography of Malcolm X his teacher says, "Malcolm, one of life's first needs is for us to be realistic. Don't misunderstand me, now. We all here like you, you know that. But you've got to be realistic about being a nig*er. A lawyer-that's no realistic goal for a nig*er. You need to think about something you can be." (43). The things that his teacher told him crushed his dreams, and made him feel worthless. His teacher if not the most is one of the most influential people because of that statement, that's the statement that pushed him away from school. T...
