Working on my Delivery

There have been many instances where I have been consumed by words. When I think of a literacy autobiography I assume the assignment calls for a time when my life changed due to this instance. While I want to follow the guidelines that the autobiography calls for, I cannot deny the “guidelines” that I have placed upon myself. I want to be able to show the effectiveness of my literacy encounter, but I know the medium to which it stemmed from does have anything to do with reading. Some of the challenges I might foresee in the production of my autobiography could be the source of my literacy memory. I am contemplating choosing a time in my life where a MOVIE left a lasting impression on me. Although, this movie led to books, newspapers, and other research, since it wasn’t a reading in the traditional sense…it might take away from the parameters of the task.
I believe my age was the catalyst to my interest in movie biography. At the age of thirteen I embarked on a quest for knowledge after I saw this movie. During my childhood, most of my education was encouraged at school. With that being said, my exposure to certain topics was limited to the curriculum of the schools I attended. Being a black student in a racially mixed school, my interaction with black history was pretty much only discussed during black history month. So, I want to explore the cultural literature awakening that came after watching this movie. I opened myself up to reading more authors that reflected not only my skin tone, but encouraged pride in oneself. Words like affirmation of self, black pride, black is beautiful were mottos I heard as a child, but couldn’t grasp the context. I had to read about these things.
Authors like Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, and Amir Baraka were lost on me. My parents were not avid readers, although they encouraged education. In a sense, their take on certain aspects of education was that I would get that nourishment from school. Contrary to what my parents thought, I believe my education suffered by not having the secondary education that comes from outside the classroom. After this movie, I motivated myself to learn to read outside the classroom requirements, and this propelled me into literature as a passion and not just a subject. While I am working out the kinks of my autobiography, I want to be effective in showing the connections. I believe that words and images work and hand in hand, so I hope my literacy autobiography can show this.