Gerald Graff's Disliking Books

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The gist of Gerald Graff’s narrative Disliking books is that although you may not like something in his case books there may be a period in your life where you recognize that that thing you thought you disliked so strongly was really your passion. The key ideas of Gerald Graff’s narrative are that he himself was very against reading as a young child, however, when he began college and found the controversy over the ending of Huckleberry Finn he began to see reading as more of a conversation thus it became more interesting to him. After reading this narrative I believe that everyone eventually moves through some kind of the same thing for example, when I was a freshman in high school, I Had to read the book Animal Farm I could barely read
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In his essays titled “Disliking books,” Gerald Graff narrate his experiences with books, and how he grew up disliking literature. Graff end up becoming an English teacher. Born, in and middle-class, Graff grew up in an ethnically mixed Chicago neighborhood [22]. Even though Graff grew up as a middle-class family kid, the author was beating in literature by the working-class kids [22]. Graff spent his academic life with his literate father. The author’s father tried to brings some support to Graff…

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