As a young child my mother always told me stories which made me more interested towards stories and being author. Sometimes it would be stories that were passed on from her childhood and, panchatantra, choota bheem and other children’s books. Now that I reflect upon it, there was always a moral to the story, whether it was honesty, …show more content…
Like most kids, this is the introduction to writing and reading in one’s life. Here we learn the basics. A book, what we thought were just drawings and symbols on paper turned out to be letters and words on paper and all around us. We learned that words have meanings and that he more we understood the more likely we would be able to get what we wanted. Unlike most kids though, I also learned to succeed by reading in writing in 5th grade. When one is taken out of their natural environment one must adapt to overcome. That is what I learned, most importantly that is why I learned to read and write in a completely different language in just one year. Literacy in my opinion is much like Darwin’s natural selection theory, only the ones who adapt survive and succeed. Only the ones who read, write, and understand efficiently can become powerful and