I want to focus on how the victim’s negative experience impacts their ability to keep up with their peers due to their impacted confidence. I will use Brandt and Alexander to support my argument. I will use Brandt because the article discusses those who were victims because they aren’t offered the same opportunity. She also discusses sponsorship which will be a help me further complicate my writing. Alexander’s article categorizes the schema for narratives so that will help me explain what makes a victim in a narrative. I have selected Ashley Harmon, Ciara Oakley-Robbins, and Caroline Wilson as my literacy narratives for right now.
Relevant Narratives in Rising Cairn
The topic that interests me is the victim part of the narratives. The victim usually blames someone else for their experience with reading and writing that is usually negative.
Ciara Oakley-Robbins
Evan Dodge
Ashley Harmon
Teagan Bollman
Caroline Wilson
Duane Wheeler
Reading Questions for Alexander and Brandt
Brandt says “they can lend their resources and credibility to the sponsored…”(Brandt 367). Lending their credibility to the sponsored can help that person succeed because people are more likely to trust them. Resources are helpful because when someone is still learning they usually do not have a lot of useful resources.
Reading and writing is highly valued because it helps people gain success in the long run. Most people have a complicated relationship with reading and writing because it is forced on us at such an early age. By the time we have the freedom to write about what interests us most people have lost interest in writing all together.
The “child prodigy” little narrative interested me because I had a friend who is like that. She’s smart but is always put on display for everyone to see. She was always reading and writing and at the library studying. The second little narrative that interested me is the “rebel” one because I can relate. I am the rebel. I don’t particularly dislike reading and writing but I try to do the least amount of work or do my assignments in a different way.
