Literacy: A Lineage

In Literacy: A Lineage the author begins with explaining her father being her literary guardian. Her childhood was spent with her father who had a strong passion for reading and writing that got passed on to her. To this day Melanie Luken, the author, can recite a poem her and her father read together when taking bike rides together. This specific poem has had a great impact on Luken's life and love for literature. Luken began studying French but the appreciation for the language could never amount to amount she had for English. English was and is part of her tradition and to her heritage. For Christmas rather getting her father gifts, Luken and her siblings would write stories for their father. Her love and skills grew in high school and so forth when she was more educated on poetry and language.
She knew that her father, partially being stay at home father, and aging would never have a great deal of money or material things, but that didn't matter he had given her something that would stay with her for her entire life. He had created and given her passion and ability for reading writing English literature. The language was her passion and parts of her life and been based around that, and she was happy with just that.
The author uses good description words and sentences to explain the images being shown through the writing. She uses dialogue from her father writing the poem and how it directly changed her. Melanie Luken explained what the literature from her father meant to her and the person she became from her childhood. She recited important poems that showed how they connected her to her father.