Literacy Narrative In Literature

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Today, I want to talk about my story which have connection with literacy narrative. The story is about reading book, which helps me study literature better. I don’t know the way people usually study literature, but for me the most important thing to do the best in literature is emotion because when I have emotion, I usually learn and write anything better, especially when I’m writing essay, emotion is the most important thing that I need. For me, emotion help you to do everything better and help you want to devote more time into the work that you are working. In my opinion, emotion is the spiritual of the essay and that why I like reading Nguyen Nhat Anh’s book, because it brings me emotion. Firstly, let’s me tell you about how I hated literature …show more content…

I just remembered that book called “Give Me A Ticket to Childhood” and the author of that book is Nguyen Nhat Anh. That book is a short meditation on past and present, the adult narrator looking back at a more carefree time, when he was eight, and comparing childhood perspectives on the world with those of adult experience. In this story, the childhood’s world of the author is also complication and meeting a lot of troubles. That time he just was a child, he had awkward thinking and doing the awkward things, but it made him happy. Untarnished by the loss of innocence and the hardships of adulthood, life even in hindsight is a boundless adventure. Through the eyes of a child, there is no distinction between the unknown and the unknowable, which makes every moment become one of fantastic wonders, and that why it made me feel peaceful and remembering about my childhood, because childhood seems to disappear piece by piece, and that book brought me back my childhood and made me remembered about the thing that I have …show more content…

Moreover, the content of the book easily go into your mind so you can understand it faster and knowing what experience or lesson author want to transfer to reader. Besides that, when you read a book that you like, it will move you and easily attach you more than the book that don’t like, and it can make you miss it for a long time. It like when you listen to a happy song, it can make your bad mood become better, because somehow it approaches you and your soul and Nguyen Nhat Anh’s book can make me like that. Every time I read it, it helps me have

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