In addtion to my agreeing with egraham 17, Learning to read and write causes a person to become more articulate about the experiences that heor she encounters, and when one person becomes more articulate, his or her mind becomes open to new possibilities of existence outside the circles in which he/she was raised in, and when new possibilities enter a persons mind, naturally the person will want to experience more, and have more freedom to explore. Moreover, as I posted elsewhere, "Writing a narrative is very important for the individual writer and for the audience who reads the writer’s narratives. Writing a narrative allows each individual to explore his or her own inner self and come to some sort of realization of epiphany about his/her life. It is my belief that narratives allow each individual writer to re-live a fragment of his/her past life or past beliefs, which results in a responsible acceptance of that past and move forward with higher character, higher self-esteem, and higher knowledge, as with Fredrick Douglas. After all, literature is one of the only things that we have in this world that attempts to make sense of all the issues in life (e.g. love, loss, war, peace, death, happiness, sadness, birth, marriage, divorce, etc) that we go through, and we do not always understand how to articulate those issues; therefore, writing our own narratives helps us come to terms with various issues, and reading the writer’s work instills new ideas of how to articulate an experience that possibly has been shared between writer and reader." Therefore, we become more free to think outside the box just by seeing the power of words, the power to evoke an emotion.
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