So today in English we received our first major writing assignment. It is a literacy narative. We are to write an autobiographical account in our lives where reading and/or writing has influenced our lives in a positive or negative way. For a reason I kind of understand the play "Wit" has niggled at my mind since getting my assignment. There is a scene that I will not go into very great detail about that keeps coming back to me. It explains how the main character had that "a-ha" moment while reading a children's story and comes across a word she had not encountered before. Encouraged by her father she looks up the word in the dictionary and suddenly relates an illustration in the book to the definition of the word.
I think I want to tell a similar story about how working through a word let me turn a corner and discover my a-ha moment that led to my love of reading and ultimately my love for writing. I think it will parallel nicely and also prove to be quite "meta". I can recall triggered flashbacks, I can make allusions to John Donne and Beatrix Potter and to the play "Wit". My only concern is I can't remember the name of the book or the author of the book that gave me my a-ha moment. It is something I will have to reconcile with myself to make this all work.
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