- One descriptive detail from X’s narrative that especially stands out to me was when he said “In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life.” I found it fascinating how he said that while sitting in prison. I would assume prison to feel like a place that makes you feel restricted and constrained and as if you have stripped every bit of freedom you have. So therefore, when he said he has never felt more free before it goes against any and all stigma that surrounds the concept of being in a prison. However, this situation did alter his personal relationship to written literacy when he decided to pick up a dictionary and copy it word by word in order to widen his idiolect while incarcerated. He decided to view his situation as a positive and learning experience and decided to start getting deeper into literature, which he genuinely grew to love.
- Looking back over the literacy narratives we’ve read so far, one thing I want to imitate from these writers in my own literacy narrative is doing a free write based on my feelings and memories about certain aspects that eventually connected back to my own literacy narrative topic. I feel like following Manson’s style of writing as an example could be very beneficial to me because I can talk about that one moment of my life that felt like the tip of the iceberg which set in course all of my next actions in regards to my topic for my literacy narrative. I can illustrate this process through the use of specific examples, just as Manson did in his writing.
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Free writing on your literacy narrative will bring your story to life and help others connect to your writing. This will definitely make your literacy interesting for others to read.