MCUENCA: Literacy Interview Assignment

For this assignment I interviewed my mom so here’s just a small part of the interview.

What kinds of writing did you see your parents, siblings, and other family members doing as you were growing up? What did they read, where, and when?

Letters to distant family members (in cursive) was grandpa’s main writings, it seemed as he was the “letter writing Patriarch”, there was no other way to communicate, no phones, much less computers, so he was very conscientious of including all the details, and mentioning almost all members of the family in the letters.

Back home (in Mexico), My grandpa used to read western fiction books, cowboys ( from Marcial LaFuente Stephania translated into Spanish) and I read all of the books he had, probably over 200, I read them all during elementary school, there was not much to read in a very isolated small place. Then some friends let me borrow romance books, but my grandpa didn’t like the explicit sex in them, so he forbade them.