Roxanne

Thesis: Childhood personal experiences shape one’s attitude towards reading.

outline:

Intro: include thesis talk about maybe personal feelings–what reading means to you—foreshadow birkerts childhood and how it relates to his feelings and finally an outside source(roomate or friend) and their feelings towards reading.

section 1:

my personal experience

—description of day in the summer (include personal feelings be very descriptive and elaborate; talk about the bonding with mom to lead into family influence)

—talk about family influence (mothers joy, grandmothers joy, sisters joy)

—connect to reading now and the enjoyment from reading (whether its school assigned ex wuthering heights and jane eyre) or reading on my own (twilight series, harry potter series

section 2: Birkerts

–talk about Birkerts childhood (conflicting views from his parents and his deep emotional attachment towards reading)

–talk about how that effected his views towards reading today (very conflicted, insecure with self (job position and other insecurities that led him towards failure in his life)

—-bring in evidence about move to maine with gf

—-talk about conflicts (social vs isolation)

—-maybe mention his influence on his daughter and how that may have shaped her view of reading (he hate beauty in the beast but allows her to watch it) -also beauty in the beast has multiple authors but he loves reading because essentially you are the author too because you are imagining the details of the story

section 3:

must interview someone

qs to ask: childhood experiences towards reading?

——-family influence on reading?

——-reading opinions today?

——-personal opinions towards my thesis (possibly add if they correspond to message of this essay)

Conclusion:

Thesis: Childhood personal experiences shape one’s attitude towards reading.

-connect to Birkerts childhood (father and mother had opposing viewpoints so he grew up with conflicted attitudes towards reading)

—–he doesn’t like social reading but he talks about what he read to other people(conflicting)

—–he greatly enjoys reading and writing but he feels embarassed to be an editor

—–he has identity problems because his father discouraged his love for reading while his mother encouraged it; this is why he doesn’t know what he wants to do with his life and why he raises his daughter with conflicting views (he hates disney but he allows her to love it

Family-my personal experiences

-talk about how my grandmother loved to read and passed that love to my mother which then translated into my love of readin

——-nature vs nurture (possible topic to talk about)

-don’t forget to interview one other person on their opinion of reading!!!!!!