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ritual.Preachers base their Sunday sermons on Bible stories to teach the impor-tance of religious faith.Grandparents tell how things used to be (some-times the same stories year after year).Schoolchildren tell teachers thattheir dog ate their homework.College applicants write about significantmoments in their lives.Writing students are often called upon to com-pose literacy narratives to explore how they learned to read or write.Thischapter provides detailed guidelines for writing a literacy narrativeWe'llbegin with three good examples.  \n## Readings\n\nRICK BRAGG  \nAll Over But the Shoutin'  \nThis narrative is from All Over But the Shoutin,'a 1997 autobiography byRick Bragg,a former reporter for the New York Times and author of I Am aSoldier,Too:The Jessica Lynch Story (2003).Bragg grew up in Alabama,and in this narrative he recalls when,as a teenager,he paid a final visit to hisdying father.  \nHe was living in a little house in Jacksonville,Alabama,a college and milltown that was the closest urban center—with its stoplights and a highschool and two supermarkets—to the country roads we roamed in ourraggedy cars.He lived in the mill village,in one of those houses the millssubsidized for their workers,back when companies still did things like  \ngenres ▲  \nprocesses O  \nsituations  \nresearch  \nede/ejw  \nrhetorical  \nthat.It was not much of a place,but better than anything we had everlived in as a family.I knocked and a voice like an old woman's,punctu-ated with a cough that sounded like it came from deep in the guts,toldme to come on in,it ain't locked.It was dark inside,but light enough tosee what looked like a bundle of quilts on the corner of a sofa.Deepinside them was a ghost of a man,his hair and beard long and goingdirty gray,his face pale and cut with deep grooves.I knew I was in theright house because my daddy's only real possessions,a velvet-coveredboard pinned with medals,sat inside a glass cabinet on a table.But thiscouldn't be him.  \nHe coughed again,spit into a can and struggled to his feetbutstopped somewhere short of standing straight up,as if a stoop was allhe could manage.\"Hey,Cotton Top,\"he said,and then I knew.Mydaddy,who was supposed to be a still-young man,looked like the walk-ing dead,not just old but damaged,poisoned,used up,crumpled upand thrown in a corner to die.I thought that the man I would seewould be the trim,swaggering,high-toned little rooster of a man whostared back at me from the pages of my mother's photo album,theyoung soldier clowning around in Korea,the arrow-straight,good-looking boy who posed beside my mother back before the fields andmophandle and the rest of it took her looks.The man I rememberedhad always dressed nice even when there was no cornmeal leftwhoseblack hair always shone with oilwhose chin,even when it wobbledfrom the beer,was always angled up,high.  \nI thought he would greet me with that strong voice that soundedso fine when he laughed and so evil when,slurred by a quart of cornlikker,he whirled through the house and cried and shrieked,tormentedby things we could not see or even imagine.I thought he would be theman and monster of my childhood.But that man was as dead as a mancould be,and this was what remained,like when a snake sheds its skinand leaves a dry and britte husk of itself hanging in the Johnson grass.  \n\"It's allover but the shoutin'now,ain't itboy,\"he said,and whenhe let the quilt slide from his shoulders I saw how he had wasted away,how the bones seemed to poke out of his clothes,and I could see howit killed his pride to look this way,unclean,and he looked away fromme for a moment,ashamed.  \nHe made a halfhearted try to shake my hand but had a coughing 5fit again that lasted a minute,coughing up his life,his lungsand after  \n喜  \nsituations  \nmlaapa  \nrhetorica  \nthat I did not want to touch him.I ","cbCaivfoEjvb2aHJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivfoEjvb2aHJ","pdf",2531009,"English","# Writing a Literacy Narrative 6\n## Readings\n## 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