Before and After
by Doreen Aubertin
Imagine not being able to read enough to help your children with their homework and knowing how to write only a few words. And looking up words in the dictionary is next to impossible. That was me, Doreen Aubertin, in 1996. Read the rest...
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In these years I had read everything I could lay my hands on to do with illiteracy. I knew about the helplessness in everyday activities, finding one's way or finding an address or choosing a meal in a restaurant, about how illiterates anxiously stick to prescribed patterns and familiar routines, about how much energy it takes to conceal one's inability to read and write, energy lost to actual living. Illiteracy is dependence. By finding the courage to learn to read and write, Hanna had advanced from dependence to independence, a step towards liberation.
- The Reader, Bernhard Schlink


