"Literacy: A Lineage" Annotation

Within the first few lines the author hints to us that her path to literacy is much longer and more complex than most. The author then uses a poem as a mean of trying to portray the connection her father and her had. In the third paragraph the author then tells us the reason she's writing this piece. She thanks her father as the one who got her into literacy. In paragraph four the author describes her father to us as a means of trying to express to us who he really was. Into the sixth paragraph the author shares vivid memories with us which as one of the key features. Throughout this essay the author constantly refers to her main point and connects back to it. With the last concluding paragraph of the essay the author again stretches the importance of her father as a role into her current career.