"I always saw teaching adults to read and write as a political act, an act of knowledge, and therefore as a creative act" (page 10). This quote really intrigued me because when you are learning to read and write you don't think of it as any of the things Freire listed, but you think of it as a way of communicating. Freire's idea made learning to read and write more of a meaningful thing rather than something that everyone does just because they are supposed to. It opened up my idea of what reading and writing is, and now I know why we put so much value on words and the world in our society.
1. I have never done a visual analysis essay before but I have done assignments where we had to visually analyze something, so this was sort of a new experience for me. I liked it because it seemed easier to write about a visual or something real rather than an idea or concept we can't see. 2. The assignment expectations and the questions we generated in class were clear to me. They were helpful because I could just look back at them when I ran out of information to type out. It gave me a clear outline before I wrote the whole essay. 3. The most difficult part of this essay for me was talking about the artist of my piece or who created it. This was hard because my piece didn't have an artist's name or creator on it. So, to get through this, I had to explain that I didn't know who created the piece. 4. This did change a small area of my daily habits. I found myself walking by the statue more often trying to get closer looks of it every time I passed by. This is som...
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