When people cannot handle with the tuition fee, they tend to skip their education so that they can spend their time earning money; therefore, poverty is also a reason for illiteracy. Poverty prevents people from going to schools. In her journal "When Mama Can't Read: Counteracting Intergenerational Illiteracy", Kathleen S. Cooter argues that “intergenerational illiteracy often exists in high-poverty urban and rural settings where it is common for teachers to find that three or more generations of a family have low literacy skills” This is significant because, as I have been saying, poverty is a cause of illiteracy. People who live in difficulties don’t have opportunities to attend classes. They are too poor to invest in their education. If
