Getting documents off a laptop with a broken screen?

[Asrai]

The screen on my laptop isn't working- it just shows white or grainy stripes of colour before turning black. It's a MacBook that's about 3 years old and it's already got a load of glitches (like shutting off instantaneously when it's unplugged.) Anyway, there are a few documents I need to get off of it. I have a USB flash drive/thumb drive/whatever you call it, and I can borrow a family member's laptop to transfer a few documents to, but not my entire hard drive.
Or can I temporarily switch the hard drives on 2 macs so that mine goes in a working machine? I'm not at all technologically savvy and I don't want to break anything.
I'm also pretty sure I don't have any cables or anything to connect 2 devices.
Thanks!

 

[Kaveman]

hard drives

are not a user serviceable part.

Plug them together, FireWire is the fastest, restart the broken screen one in Target Mode (holding down the T key) and access the files on the other Mac.

 

[Spawn_Dooley]

I'm not at all technologically savvy and I don't want to break anything.

Target Disc Mode instructions