As a person with prescription glasses isn’t necessarily blind; when I was a toddler, the inside of my ears made everything sound muffled. Back then, it was the time for me to learn my native tongue. Yet one cannot speak well without being able to differentiate words.
So my doctor put tubes into my ears to make my hearing enhanced. Unfortunately, I was still behind in English by the time I began school. For a while, I spelled words by …show more content…
Once people figure this out, writing and learning languages might become more enjoyable to everyone. Maybe if I didn’t get so sensitive and my mom didn’t sound so demanding, I could’ve been more willing to learn and fix the mistakes I made. I even could’ve help edit other’s writing more efficiently. As I was reading Helen Keller’s literacy narrative, I could sense that she was in a lonely situation. Her struggles seemed to remind me of my own though I didn’t have much of a challenge like she did. Yet when I read Malcolm X’s narrative, I noticed we also had similarities. We both pushed ourselves to better our language skills. According to Aristotle’s theory, “He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god”. If there is no language, then no could know or at the least hint the thoughts of others. We would be stuck in our own little world, feeling almost alone. All of this time, I’ve been trying to work on improving my literacy when language became more than what it defined. Language is a form of communication, typically spoken or written, that use words in a certain manner. However, it is also a way to connect with others and our