Literacy
... Literacy is a growing process, as we are. ... This started you learning literacy. ... As you moved through the years, literacy didn’t get any easier. ... What I mean by “real” writing is; writing that gets us into all the funny details of literacy. ... No matter what you did you could never get literacy right. ... Through these times of learning your literacy got stronger. What was scary and tough about literacy was now easy. You grew as a person and your literacy rate sky- rocketed. ... Literacy is not a process that comes to you over night; you have to work hard and try to succeed in it. ... Malcolm X found out how tough literacy was in jail. He taught himself everything he knew about literacy. ... It was him alone in his cell that made him interested in literacy. ... Having people believe in you is sometimes the key to a healthy literacy, as Mike Rose found out. ... Min-zhan Lu was also another writer that wrote about her struggle with literacy. ... “I made sentences…with both English lyric and the classic Chinese lyric…” (Lu, 35) Her school was one part of her life, which means one teaching of literacy. While her home was the other part that had a whole different set of rules regarding literacy.