Blog # 2

The latest narrative that was assigned to read in English was called Between The Drafts. This story shadows some of Nancy Summer's personal experiences. We had a group discussion about the main focal point of the story, which was authority. We also related this to our narrative essays we soon have to write. Our narrative is about language, and language also played a big part in Between The Drafts. In the story, Nancy's parents spoke a native tongue of German, which ironically, had not been taught to their daughter Nancy. Nancy had a problem with authority. I could tell that Nancy only valued her own authority, and wanted to learn information in her own way, as did her parents. I gather this from the part in the story where she was about 8yrs old and she wanted to learn Italian after being sweet-talked by an Italian waiter. So her and her mom bought a tape and played it in the car. Nancy did not accept that way of learning. She felt the lack of authority she had and personal experiences she had with the information given on the tape. So in our narrative, we were showed to tell our own story stemming from our own experiences.