In the book, Malcolm discusses how he dealt with Elijah Muhammed's adultery. In the beginning, he can not handle this, and tries to change his teachings to avoid it. However, after he has a conversation with Elijah, he becomes enlightened. Malcolm realizes, and I agree with this, that when you judge a person, you have to weigh both their strengths and their weaknesses, in order to truly judge them. Malcolm realizes that because he believes so strongly in the NOI, that he is willing to accept Elijah's faults that go along with his strengths. I experience this every day of my life. No one in the world is perfect, so when I judge a person, I have to take into their account both the good things about them, and the things that may not necessarily be their strong points. This has helped me in my life, because many people that I have met have not made good first impressions, but when weighing them overall as a person, I am able to accept who they are. However, I always wonder when the negatives outweigh the positives. After a while, Malcolm is no longer able to deal with Elijah, so he decides to break away from the NOI.
In this review of the move Hancock, the writer goes through both the strengths and weaknesses of the movie, before deciding that it is absolute garbage (I happen to agree)
http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2008/06/30/in_superhero_comedy_hancock_weaknesses_outweigh_strengths/
I live every day of my life trying to look at both sides of everything, instead of seeing everything how I want to see it.
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Malcolm must really really be into the NOI to accept Muhammad after he committed adultery. I truly don't know how he looked at him the same way after that. Elijah Muhammad is like a saint to Malcolm, he's a descendent of God for crying out loud, and he went and committed a crime like that? I would probably lose all hope. It's like he's the one who got Malcolm into Islam and now he's slowly ruining it. The fact that Malcolm did accept him though, proves how much he's changed and how badly he wants to see the good in people. It's a good characteristic, don't you think?
oh and p.s- the article was pretty funny, I didn't see the movie so it's hard to relate but from reading the article, it seems the weaknesses in this case definitely did outweigh the strengths, or lack there of.
sam :]
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