Learning How To Read, By Tony Scott

Tony Scott, the author of, “Writing Enacts and Creates Identities and Ideologies”. Scott explains how ideologies are used in everyday life by stating that, an ideology is a “system of ideas and beliefs that together constitute a comprehensive worldview.” (Scott, 1) People throughout the world live through ideologies every day on the basis of religion, skin color, and where they are from. Such as the social class they are associated with. Family background is another basis of how an individual sees ideology. For example, throughout history girls and boys were taught growing up that men should be the provider for their family financially and the women’s responsibilities were to take care of the home and their children. The story ‘Learning to

Things such as culture, identity, power, and worldview have been mentioned in his reading which translates to the story ‘Learning how to Read’ by Malcolm X. Malcolm X was a man that wanted to create change, inspired. by Martin Luther King Jr., Malcom X chose to express his desire to change differently then MLK did. MLK’s ways of protesting were peace. He promoted equality and worked with everyone. Malcolm X used the ‘self-defense’ approach. Malcolm X had a troublesome childhood growing up. He was an orphan early and he dropped out of school in 8th grade because his teacher told him he couldn’t succeed on being a lawyer based on his race. He was later arrested in 1945 for burglary and was sent to prison. It was then and there where Malcolm X found his passion of reading and writing. There he was also introduced to a man by the name of Bimbi, Malcom X stated that he wanted to ‘emulate’ him. Tony Scott says that, “writers are socialized, changed, through their writing in new environments…” (Scott, 2). This quote relates because it reinstates what Deborah Brandt wrote in her piece, “Sponsors of Literacy”. She said, “Sponsors are delivery systems for the economies of literacy, the means by which these forces present themselves to-and

One of the things that Scott says in his excerpt is that, “… writing is an ideological, socially involved practice and thus inescapably implicated in identity…” (Scott, 3) His message is to express how literacy has become a part of our social life. He also states that there will never be a time that literacy doesn’t involve worldview and ideologies. Not only does Scott’s piece relate to Malcolm X’s story, ‘Learning how to Read’, but it relates to Strasser’s piece based on how writing should be like. In Strasser’s piece, she talks about how, ‘writing and education are useless tools if they fail to speak to a student’s life, experience, and passions… Janna made us believe that our voices mattered.’ (Strasser, 200). The last part of the quote is very significant in similarity to Malcolm X. For example, when Malcolm X got out of jail, he didn’t just gain knowledge intellectually, he realized that his voice mattered, and he had to do something about the racism that was going on at the