Throughout Alexander’s Success, Victims, and Prodigies, he writes about the many different cultural narratives and why certain ones are used the most. Though “success” was the most used one, I feel as though my literacy narrative falls under “hero”. At first I did not even look at the hero narrative, my narrative was not anything heroic, why would it fall under that category? At first glance of the topics, I thought that my narrative would be under “success”. But after finishing the reading, I went back to the coding schema on page 615 and actually read through what each one was. I realized that my literacy narrative was not what I thought it was. Success emphasizes literacy more than the individual themselves. This is not how my narrative works. Surprisingly, my literacy narrative was more of a “hero” narrative. The hero focuses on the individual Instead of just on literacy. This is more my narrative. I focus on how failing affected me mentally, and how I was able to overcome that within myself. I used determination and self-resilience to accomplish what I needed to.

Brandt writes about how sponsors are people who are talked about during people’s literacy moments. These people are those who are there for the person going through their literacy moment. This could be a teacher, friend, family member, or any other influential person. For my literacy moment, I could say that my sponsor was my English teacher. He motivated me to keep going so that I could pass the class. He gave me multiple chances so that I could succeed. Though sponsors are typically those around you, I almost also feel as though I was a sponsor for myself as well. I was the one who truly had to push myself to pass the class, to overcome the thoughts and emotions in my head.