Write a three-page paper discussing an incident, object, image, and so on, which demonstrates the power of literacy or, conversely the weakness of illiteracy in one of the works

Write a three-page paper discussing an incident, object, image, and so on, which demonstrates the power of literacy or, conversely the weakness of illiteracy in one of the works we read. You may want to define literacy in sense that it is usually used—as the ability to read and write—or you may wish to consider an idea of folk literacy and illiteracy. In this idea of folk literacy, a protagonist who is illiterate in the normal sense is literate in a folk sense, and is able to best his enemy who is folk illiterate. A WORD (OR TWO) TO THE WISE: it is better to be focused and specific rather than cosmic and universal (and over-general). Less is usually more. Required text Jarrett, Gene Andrew, editor, Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume I, 1746-1920