Malcolm X, Franklin and Rose's essays

All three of these essays were very different. Benjamin Franklin's essay was obviously written in a different era and had a much more formal feel to it than the other two did. I think that Malcolm X's was much more of a timeline type of essay than the other two. At the beginning of his essay he had practically no education and he explained each event that led to him becoming well educated. He also seemed very passionate in his essay about helping fellow African Americans, which seemed to be his main motivation for educating himself in prison. Rose's essay talked more about his experience in Voc. Ed. rather than a step by step of how he became educated like Malcolm X's essay was. He made observations like "What Ken and so many others do is protect themselves from such suffocating madness by taking on with a vengeance the identity implied in the vocational track" more than he explained the steps he took to become educated. Franklin's essay was just confusing and hard to follow.