Malcolm X Vs. Benjamin Franklin

These two essays were very different in the way they were written. It was very hard for me to understand Franklin's essay. I found myself going back and re-reading the sentences I had just read multiple times just to figure out what he was trying to say. It is obvious that that the two men were from different eras and the two eras had very different writing styles.
The two essays are similar in some ways though, they both tell the story of how the writer became educated and learned to write. Malcolm X and Franklin both seem very passionate about education and writing in their essays. In both essays, the authors state that in basically any free time they had they were reading books or writing. They did not stop at simply learning to read and write, they constantly wanted to be better and be the best that they could be.