If you're at all interested...Nemat's "Secondhand Bookseller"

Tonight, I had an assignment to read this little literacy narrative for our English class. At first, I thought it was going to be another one of those "How To Write A Literacy Narrative" readings that we have had to read quite a bit of this past week, but as it turns out, it was actually an uber cute story that was very interesting.

In many of our recent assignments, we have had to read many ways to create and edit our own personal, literacy narratives. Within these readings, the authors are trying to drill it in our minds that our audience needs to see and feel the scenes we are trying to create, basically, to emphasize and dramatize the imagery. In Secondhand Bookseller, I could definitely feel how badly Marina Nemat wanted to get her hands on more books. Her descriptions of how much she wanted more money to buy the books seemed like very serious issues for a little girl to have to deal with.  Not only are our recent assignments trying to teach us to  “show, not tell”, but they are also try to teach us to use dialogue. In this assignment, Nemat’s uses dialogue when talking to Albert, the old, mysterious bookkeeper.

Besides all of those lame, English, technical terms, I thought the whole thing was just so darn cute. I, somewhat, feel bad for Marina because I am, currently, reading her foreshadowed thoughts directly from prison; the only reason she was even arrested was because she spoke out against the Ayatollah Khomeini Regime. Google it, my best friends claims it to be quite interesting.

Until next time, folks! J