Bell Hooks Keeping Close To Home Analysis

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In Keeping Close to Home, Bell Hooks writes about her life as a black women navigating the world of ivy league education at Stanford, and how her interactions compared to those of her home life. The author tells of how she can not relate to her other peers as they spoke of their dislike for their parents. She tried to explain to them her beliefs on the importance of parents, but they only wrote her off for not understanding their world. Her peers felt that their parents were obligated to provide their necessities while Hooks felt appreciative of the little her parents could provide though they were not required to do so. After that experience, she closed herself off from the people surrounding her saying, “... I found that classmates believed “lower class” people had no beliefs or values. I was silent in such discussions, disgusted by their ignorance.” Hooks realized that she came from a world filled with distinct beliefs that pushed her to draw away from any interaction because her classmates did not understand her way of life. Have you ever experienced a time where you background has kept you from speaking your mind on a certain issue? Was there a time you tried to explain your thoughts in …show more content…

They can be written down in books, played as a movie, performed on stage, or constructed into a song. Usually, a literacy narrative is about a time when the writer interacted with reading or writing. They can be about a time when someone’s words impacted the writer’s life or how the writer would only pick Clifford books when first learning to read. Nothing is off the table when it comes to creating a literacy narrative. Most of the time, the stories are told from the author’s point of view which allows them to use elements such as exaggeration to keep the reader drawn in. Any author should take their experience and not simply retell what happened. Generally, the narratives are stories from their childhood, but every age has a story to

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