Dr. Seuss once stated that the more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you’ll learn, the more places you’ll go. The ability to read and to write, can be powerful in hard times, giving us a chance to experience a life of imagination. Since we were kids, we read books to build our imagination. Allowing us to become a part of a world of so much emotion and as we grew up, we relied on these books to give some kind of relief and hope.
Literacy is the ability to read and write and having knowledge or an ability in a more specific area. Literacy has been powerful throughout hard times. The Book Thief showed us how Liesel and other characters used their ability to read and write, to connect to each other. The allies begin bombing near Molching, the people on the block must take shelter. As they stay in basement, Liesel reads to them until it is safe. Max leaves and Hans is drafted into the German army. Rudy and Liesel is given a book from Rosa from Max, called ‘The World Shaker’. A story about Liesel and Max’s friendship and promise to reunite someday. Literacy is powerful because it provides and gives more knowledge and understanding of what is going on around us.
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“In my religion we’re taught that every living thing… is only alive because it contains the secret word for life. That the only difference between us and a lump of clay. A word. Words are life, Liesel.”(The Book Thief) Liesel was given a book for her to write her story. A story of all the hardship and abundance in her life, so that one day someone will read and understand what her reality felt like. “Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being.”(The Lost Art of Reading…) Reading allows us to see and feel what the narrator is going through. Allowing us to escape our reality, in hope of finding a better outcome on