The existence of literacy can impact people who have it or around someone who apply it in their life. The impact can be in their personality or psychology, sociology relating to their social, economic and political status and also interpersonal relationship with others.
1. Impact on the personality
Amory in TSOP is deeply affected by his ability in reading and writing. He becomes an over-confident person, a man with a high self-esteem and thinks that he has a superior mentality.
He did not consider himself a “strong character,” but relied on his facility (learn things sorta quick) and his superior mentality (read a lotta deep books)
(Fitzgerald, 2013b:21)
In the quotations above, Amory realized that he did not have