a billion people, two-thirds of them women, will enter the 21st century unable to read a book or write their names,” warns UNICEF in a new report, “The State of the World’s Children 1999.”
UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, points out that the illiterate “live in more desperate poverty and poorer health” than those who can read and write. The shocking number — 1 billion people illiterate — generated frightening headlines in major newspapers.
Poverty in the poorest countries is indeed something that ought to concern all of us, especially in a season when we pause to remember the less fortunate. But as usual, there’s more to this striking statistic than UNICEF tells us. Consider three points.
The Good News. Bad news sells, news watchers tell us. And 1 billion people unable to read and write — about 16 percent of world population — is certainly bad news. But let’s deconstruct the news.
First, UNICEF’s actual number is 855 million, a figure that did not appear in major newspapers. That’s still a large number, but it is 15 percent less than 1 billion.
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conflict
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There are lots of different conflicts.
Hermia and her father are in conflict because they disagree as to which suitor Hermia should marry. Hermia wants to marry Lysander, and her father wants her to marry Demetrius.
Lysander and Demetrius are in conflict because they both want to marry Hermia.
Helena is in conflict with Demetrius, because she wants to marry him, and he wants nothing to do with her.
Oberon and Titania are in conflict because Oberson wants her to give him the human Indian baby she has adopted, and Titania wants to keep him.
Later, when a magic flower makes Lysander and Demetrius decide they both love Helena instead of Hermia, they are in conflict because they both want Helena. Furthermore, Helena and Hermia are in conflict because Hermia thinks Helena stole Lysander from her, and Helena thinks everyone is mocking her.
Those are the major conflicts. Most of them involve unrequited love and jealousy.
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Jealousy, once consumed, will take over the mind and body, and not only hurt the people around that individual, but destroy that individual. In Othello, we see the protagonist fall guilty to jealousy, even though he has said that he doesn't let his feelings get the better of him.
