Epilogue/ finishing Malcolm X opinion

• What is the significance that Malcolm X called Alex Hailey in the middle of the night, told him he trusted him 70%, and hung up? What is your sense about their relationship? 

When Malcolm first began to open up to Haley, he told him he trusted him about 20 or 25 percent. He told him he doesn't trust anyone fully, not even himself, or his wife. As the epilogue goes on you can realize that Malcolm opens up to Alex more, in the way he become more relaxed around him, invited him to come with him places he was going to speak or address a crowd. He would meet Haley at the airport when he went out of town, and they truly developed a relationship and friendship that wasn't spoken about in the book. I think it was so significant that Malcolm randomly called him in the middle of the night, and told him he trusted him 70 percent and then hung up, and then never spoke about it because it shows how much trust Malcolm really gained for Alex while writing the book, during their interviews when they would meet. They never spoke about it, and a few occurrences like that happened in the epilogue where things happened and they never really talked about it, but in this instance Alex Haley lay awake thinking about the phone call after it happened, and it made him feel good and sincere to Malcolm. IN the beginning of the epilogue, when Haley first reflects on starting the book, he talked about giving up and being unsure he would be able to create an autobiography of Malcolm x because they had quite a rough start, but by the end, by the time Malcolm told Haley he trusted him 70 percent, they had grown a friendship that I don't think either of them thought they would had.