English 10

The story of  "Mascot" took place in Michigan, in the late 1910s,which is part of the north, which means they did not have slavery. But some negreos were still being discriminated because of their race, and one of them was Malcom X, who is also the main character of tthe story mascot. Mascot is about Malcom X trying to acheive his goal in life, but he is not able to because of his race. They treated him nice after he got expelled from his old school and went to boarding school because of pulling a prank on his white teacher. According to malcom, the boarding school wasn't a bad place to live in, he was treated nice there and all of his class mates were nice to him, even his teachers were nice to him. But one day he realized that they were just doing it to make him forgive them for enslaving his ancesters. So, Malcom ran away from the school, but he got caught and sent back to the boarding school. My belief is that he ran away because he was hurt emotionally. So, after a few time, malcom finally reach the point of his graduation and since he was a child he always wanted to become a lawyer, so whenm the time came, malcom told his counselor at school that he had decided to go to college and learn to become a lawyer. But his counselor told him that it wasn't nessecary for himto go to college because he was black and that there are no black lawyers. Then the counselor suggested to Malcom to be a Vender, a laundry owner, a waiter at a restaurant or a toilet cleaner beacause those were the onky jobs for the blacks at that time.