The excerpt "Learning to Read" from The Autobiography of Malcolm X details how Malcolm X gained literacy from studying in prison, and with it, a love of books and reading. Like the previous two articles, it is a narrative about someone's experience with learning something. One of the major differences, however, is that it is much less focused on what is being learned and how to learn it, but rather, the experience of learning it. Feross Aboukhadijeh's writing is practically a guide, and "How I Learned to Live Google-Free" is not far from it, but Malcolm X is obviously not trying to teach the reader how to read. Instead, he focuses on his motivations for doing it, and the prison environment he learned in. There's nothing in the previous two articles that can compare to feigning sleep when guards walk by after-hours, only to return to reading once they passed; and it's details like this which, in my opinion, make Malcolm X's writing much more interesting than that of the other two authors. Additionally, teaching yourself literacy in a prison cell is a great deal more impressive than going a week without Google products; the learning to read excerpt is very inspirational, much more so than the other educational narratives.