What saves Marable's Malcolm – and the Malcolm of Haley's autobiography – is the struggle towards humanity and the redemption he experiences on his journey; twists and turns recorded by Marable with the intensity of a fly-on-the-wall documentary.
The narrative arc of the rock star biography is familiar enough by now: the troubled or unconventional childhood; fame and riches beyond belief; drugs, divorce and despair; a near-death or similarly transformative experience; redemption of a kind.
Interviews with black ministers, political leaders, scholars and voters suggest two major factors at work: an emphasis in black congregations on forgiveness and redemption, and an experience, particularly among older black voters, of having seen their revered leaders embroiled in scandal.
I hope you will learn whatever you are meant to from this, and that you will submit to the fires of personal transformation and thereby experience redemption.
Well before showrunner Vince Gilligan stated that Walter most assuredly would not experience redemption, using his now infamous "Mr. Chips to Scarface" description, I wondered what arc Walter would follow.
I experience his redemption.
John's special individuality lies in his view of the relation between the historical events of the tradition and the Christian community's present experience of redemption.
Meanwhile, in The Snow Queen and A Visit from the Goon Squad, two musicians find their voices late in life and experience the redemption of an audience.
Even so, there is something compelling about this barmy pursuit of redemption – the figure of experience revisiting his innocent descent into hell, blaming his younger self for succumbing to temptation but also offering forgiveness.
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