Literacy and Individual Consciousness by Akinnaso, The Dead by James Joyce, and The Dark Child all share a character that has a close relationship with literacy along with the impact it has had for the character and their surrounding. In the Literacy and Individual Consciousness Akinnaso’s journey in learning how to read and write, literacy as he states “ literacy had to come to mean, for me,a way of life...knowing,...talking, and a way of doing It gave me pleasure” (Akinnaso 154). Literacy gave Akinnaso a positive effect as he learned to read and write, it helped him to think for himself. It gave him the opportunity to meet and engage with new people that are at his level intellectually “a literate community, the kind
