Imagine one day you wake up from a night's sleep to find nothing like before, you don't know where you are, the people around you, or any other aspect of your life. the life you were so sure of the night before. Imagine the feeling of confusion and uncertainty that a situation like this would cause. This chaos is not far from what millions of illiterates feel every day. The term “illiteracy” applies to much more than just an inability to read or write. There is also “functional illiteracy”. Functionally illiterate people can read words but they cannot understand their meaning, synthesize information, or make decisions based on what they read. Illiteracy could also be defined as a restriction or confinement simply because that is the type of life many non-readers lead. Illiterate people's choices are limited in almost every aspect of their lives, from where they travel to what they eat to how informed they are. Kozol mentions in his story The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society, p. 2"illiterates cannot read the menu during a rest...