The Human Cost Of An Illiterate Society Rhetorical...

The thesis of the text “The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society” by Johnathan Kozol is that “illiterates live, in more than literal ways, an uninsured existence.” The author uses techniques by defining literacy through quotes from people who are illiterate and the statistics Kozol uses, which show factual information. I connect “The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society” to my uncle’s first experience in America for many reasons.
I connect the text to my uncle’s first experience in America for many reasons. “The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society” points out that everyday individuals face hardships because they are illiterate. My uncle who is illiterate, visiting from Palestine, faced many difficulties here in the United States. One day my uncle wanted to go shopping to get food to make breakfast, but he wouldn’t take anyone with him. My uncle …show more content…
Illiterates go through several hard experiences, an experience my uncle went through was getting lost. As my uncle finished shopping he got lost and couldn’t read the signs to ask for help either. He called my dad and told him he was lost because he wasn’t use it around here. He couldn’t tell my dad exactly where he was, but luckily my dad knew which grocery store my uncle went to, so he met him there. This connects to “The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society” because for example Kozol states, “The hardest thing about it is that I’ve been places where i didn’t know where i was. You don’t know where you are..You’re lost.” I then interviewed my uncle again and asked him how he felt while he was lost? He said, “I got worried at first, but thank god your dad knew where i was.” After that my uncle never went anywhere aloe. This shows that the experiences illiterates face isn’t easy. If they can’t read nor write, they can’t be left alone in case they get lost like my uncle. Illiterates go through serval experiences, and reading a menu is one of

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The Human Cost Of An Illiterate Society Rhetorical Analysis