I like Malcolm's quote on page 8 (Nightmare): "I had learned that if you want something you had better make some noise." I really agree with this quote, if you never ask for something, you will never get it, because people will not know you need it. Sometimes you will have to be a bit rude, but otherwise you won't get it at all.
Another thing in Nightmare that was strange is that Malcolm's mother refused welfare because she was a proud person and taking welfare would destroy her pride. Wouldn't having her family all in a bad state hurt her pride even more?
In Mascot, when Mr. Ostrowksi told Malcom he shouldn't try to become a lawyer, Malcolm said it was the first major turning point in his life. He had finally noticed the racism and how things worked regarding racism. As someone (not sure who it was) in class a few days ago pointed out, it seems strange that that was the first major turning point, because so many large events had happened to him beforehand that could have tipped him off to the racism. For example, the police being more concerned with looking for his father's gun than looking for the people who burned down his house, or his father getting killed. Especially with his father getting killed, why wasn't that a major turning point?
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