Kara Poe Alexander introduces why students write certain narratives in Successes, Victims, and Prodigies: “Master” and “Little” Cultural Narratives in the Literacy Narrative Gene.  Alexander mentions many different examples of narratives to show the different ways literacy effects us all.  For example, the child prodigy narrative tells us about the upper class kids who could not remember a time when a reading or writing experience was less than perfect.  The kids were the ones who attended private schools and were flat out spoiled.  In this narrative, “the fourth most common”, the child only touched on moments when their experiences of reading and writing were fun.  Another type of narrative is the victim narrative, this is a narrative that “students associate school-based literacy practices with oppression and even cruelty.”  Alexander also mentions the hero narrative, this is a narrative that one establishes themselves as the hero of their literacy story.  “Equates literacy acquisition with success, liberation, development, profession, and upward mobility.”  I agree that these are the top three ways to write a narrative because no one wants to have a narrative that ends negatively, if they do most of the time they put the blame on themselves or a teacher that surrounds them day to day.  The child prodigy narrative would never have anything negative in it that would effect them in a big way, this goes for the success narrative and the hero narrative as well.  These narratives can prove my point that once children go to school narratives and lives can be affected.  A child might write a narrative that tells the story about how a teacher ruined all of the progress of their parents or they might tell how a teacher turned their hate for reading and writing around.

Lisa Delpit in, “The Politics of Teaching Literate Discourse” Delpit states “when teachers are committed to teaching all students, and when they understand that through their teaching change can occur, then the chance for transformation is great.”  This means that when teachers focus on the concept of making a difference they will realize that not all students learn alike.  Also, growing up with their parents or guardians not all children received the same opportunities as one another.  They could have had a terrible learning experience and when they got to school their teacher turned their world upside down and vice versa.  Delpit also quotes in here message “those teachers pushed us, they wouldn’t let us fail.”  If every teacher went by this method then no child would have to be left behind ever.  Which mean that remedial writing and reading classes would be obsolete, and would therefore would not contribute to the fact that students regress or end up not liking reading or writing in the end.  If these two quotes were applied in the classroom by teachers of any particular subject then reading and writing would not feel like a chore when children get to a certain age.  No child would be left behind to feel like they are inadequate at the basic fundamentals of reading and writing.