Malcolm X #1

So chapter 1 in a nutshell is pretty much being introduced into Malcolm's family and finding out his father gets killed after his mother has some sort of weird prediction. Afterwards, she gets put into a mental hospital because of the trauma of Malcolm's father's death. What I found out was sad was that Malcolm's mother didn't even recognize him after nurturing him for all these years.

"I can't describe how I felt. The woman who had brought me into the world, and nursed me, and advised me, and chastised me, and loved me, didn't know me. It was as if I was trying to walk up the side of a hill of feathers. I looked at her. I listened to her 'talk.' But there was nothing i could do" (Haley 22).

He visited his mother from time to time but I can't imagine the pain that he had to go through to look at the empty eyes of his mother. If I was in this situation, I definitely wouldn't be as brave as Malcolm was, and face his mother's insanity.