Literacy In Narrative Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

Literacy Literacy, as we all know is the ability that we have to read and write that includes the capacity that we have to use and learn a language as well as any other things like understanding how to communicate. It is also the most important structure that our parents teach us, without it we would not be able to communicate with each other, we would not be able to learn new skills, such as learning how to use a computer, how to use internet, how to speak properly, without it the world would not be what it is right now, without it we would not be able to achieve our goals.
Literacy can be found in newspaper, in books, in articles, in the internet, in the way we socialize with each other, it can be found almost everywhere because is something
In the Narrative of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave he explains how literacy changed the relationship that he had with his masters and himself and also that he “had no regular teacher” (257) that helped him write and read because in that time reading and writing were prohibited for slaves because the owners knew once the slaves learned how to read and write they were going to rebel against them, something that nowadays we do not have to worry about because everyone can have access to information that can be found almost anywhere. it is not only meant to be used by white men like in Frederick Douglass book, it is for every human that lives in this planet earth and want to just be better for their families or for
This is a huge problem we have here in the United States because “according to a study that was conducted by the Department of Education, 32 million adults in the United States cannot read, that is almost 14 percent of the population, in addition another 21 percent of the people can only read below a 5th grade level, and also 19 percent of high school graduates cannot read.” This rate have not changed in the past 10 years and that is unacceptable because there are so many opportunities that we can take advantage of and we do not just because we tell ourselves “I do not need this”, which is not true, we need as much education as we can so we can have a better society. In addition to this the article also mention that, “The link between academic failure and delinquency, violence and crime is welded to reading failure” Many people think because they do not know how to read or write that gives them an excuse to commit different crimes but that is not true, you can better yourself if you really want