Date of Award
2006
Document Type
Thesis
Department
English
Abstract
My earliest memory, a blurry mingling of hospital walls and baby-blue blankets, is the birth of my younger brother. My second-earliest memory is my mother guiding my hand along lines of text, identifying letters and phonemes. With that sort of a background, it isn't surprising to learn that reading dominated my childhood, nor that I formed the resolution to be an English teacher sometime around the age of ten. (The discovery that one could get paid to talk about books all day was a revelation that felt like it should have been accompanied by angel's song). Eternally on the look-out for interesting new books (and perhaps a bit inclined to read "classics" in the hopes of impressing the grown-ups), I took Jane Eyre home on the first day of the sixth grade, and while my peers were swooning over heartthrob-of-the-year Leonardo DiCaprio, I fell wholeheartedly in love with Edward Rochester. Not that Titanic wasn't worth the price of admission all three times, but come on .. . Rochester!
Recommended Citation
Garcia, Danina, ""Disposed To Be Communicative": Conversations about Literacy Among Four Texts" (2006). Honors Projects and Presentations: Undergraduate. 265.
https://mosaic.messiah.edu/honors/265
