Literacy (the ability to read and write) empowers Douglass, and the young women in Reading Lolita in Tehran. Explain, using references to each text, how this is achieved, and why they need words, language, stories, and the ability to write, to survive the world they are living in. How do you — or how might you — experience language as a way to gain independence, knowledge and power today?

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