1)The article basically talks about the perspectives students have of themselves. The way they tell the story whether they start out as a hero or a victim or a rebel and how they finish the story. Another part of the article that I thought was interesting is that professors assign the narratives to students so they can get a better understanding of how the student writes and what is there strengths and weaknesses. The important parts of the story are about how students usually start off by being the victim and some how with great effort they become the hero. Another big part is how the teacher was supposedly holding them back and how they had get past this huge adversity. Rewriting the narratives from a different point of view is when the students usually can see where they went wrong plus they can see that not everything can be blamed on someone else.
2) From another perspective my literacy narrative would look like the classic pity party and after writing my first narrative and relooking it over I have seen that I was blaming everything on my teachers and after giving myself the opportunity to rewrite it I found that once I took blame where blame was do I found that it was my ignorance that stopped me from liking english back in my high school days.
Perspective shifting would basically look like me taking blame for the things that I did and after doing that I could see where I was wrong and where I could improve. Once you take a good look in the mirror you can see where you went wrong.
From the perspective of another person “my teachers point of view” I looked like a person who did not really want to try. She also did not experience the years of tough english teachers in the past but that wasn’t her fault and so I shouldn’t have just assumed that she was gonna be like that too but I did so basically I didn’t give her a chance. She was nothing but good to me but i treated her very differently and didn’t put in much effort. She still put time into me but I didn’t give her the time of day until it came to my essay which was vital to me getting into college.
