The author Melanie Luken starts Literacy: A Lineage by explaining the role her father had in her life of literacy. She elaborated on how they would go for bike rides every Sunday afternoon to a bell tower where they would read a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. As they both aged, she started to go by herself making the bike riding a tradition. Her literacy came from her fathers love of literature and her definition of literacy was changed because of who her father was. She comments on how their literacy was more than just reading and writing, but rather the tradition it held with it.
She goes on to tell who her father is. She writes about how he has tried almost every art, including poetry and song writing. At first he had hoped to become a professor, but ended up as a stay at home dad for his daughter making their relationship prosper and they became close even if it wasn't easy at times. She spoke on how intelligent and imaginative her father was and how that benefited her daily life as a child. He taught her famous quotes and when she learned to read and write she would do it as often as she could. She remembered going to the library as a child with her brothers, and the books she wrote her father for Christmas.
She goes on to touch base on how she majored in French, upholding her tradition of language. She had struggled with it because she didn't have a tradition from her childhood with French. She found that tradition had changed her definition of literacy and she wanted it to be a part of her lineage. She touches base on how she may not be rich with money or physical things but her father made her rich in love of literature and language. Even though he passed she still has these things to remember him.
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