Literacy: Malcolm X, Sherman Alexie And Anne Lamott

Literacy Our very first lesson is to become literate in the language we speak from reading alphabets to novels, we try to achieve literacy. Many people have come to believe that there are many ways to achieve literacy. However, some of the greatest public speakers and writers did not achieve it through the way most people did. This is illustrated in the literary work of Malcolm X, Sherman Alexie and Anne Lamott. According to these people, literacy isn’t achieved by simply going to school. It’s achieved through great determination and through great persistence.
In the essay “Superman and Me,” the author Sherman Alexie details how he learned to read despite having limited resources on the Native American reservation where he grew up. Alexie
All were very self-motivated to learn about literacy and become literate themselves but were quite a bit of different in their access to resources. For Sherman Alexie and Anne Lamott, they had access to different things through the school and the community such as flyers, technology, comic books, and free time. On the other hand, Malcolm X’s situation was different from that. He was an inmate in a prison with no constant connection to the outside community. He was able to read books that were provided by the prison, but the prison itself is not a place I would consider to be a huge
The essays by Malcolm X, Sherman Alexie and Anne Lamott are prime examples of the idea of multiple sponsors of literacy. According to Malcolm X, he tries to inspire people if he can teach himself with an eighth grade education than others can too. Malcolm X was highly influenced by the minister Elijah Muhammad and he impacted his life because Elijah Muhammad was the main reason he wanted to learn how to write and read and also, the prison and the books he was able to read in the prison. He found the desire of his life and believed that nobody else got more out of going to prison than him. He himself motivated to further his reading and become literate. This proved that if people have a desire and have the ability do anything than prison can be the best source of education that people can receive even better than a college education. Therefore, Elijah Muhammad and his own motivation are a sponsor of literacy for Malcolm X. On the other hand, Sherman Alexie had multiple sponsors of literacy. A main influence on Alexie was his father because his father had such a passion for reading and for books that it greatly affected Alexie's love for reading at such a young age. Anne Lamott was her own influence; her way of encouragement was to keep practicing every day. She also encouraged and inspired her audience saying, “almost every writing starts with terrible first drafts, but you