Gerald Graff Disliking Book Summary

Gerald Graff, who grew up fearing books, has a BA in English and known for his pedagogical theories. In the excerpt “Disliking Books” Graff, who grow up in a Chicago neighborhood and feeling he was in danger of being a middle class Jew, felt being a bookworm would have made matters worse. Graff grew up with a literate man as a father, who forced to him to read many books that he brought home. While never having the same experience as Graff, I loved books and was always racing to finish to start a new one.

When I Glanced inside the torn cardboard box that had “Family room” I discovered one of my mom’s old book named Petals on the Wind written by V. C. Andrews. While she was putting her already read books on the empty oak bookshelf, I asked her “would I be able to have this book?” Despite that it was a book above my reading level, she generally smiled and agreed. Over the years while we sat there watching television, my eyes would wonder like an antiquarian over to the old and new novels. Having my imagination running wild and wondering what type of adventures or mysteries lay inside. My family was firmly about education, with a father that was completing up his Masters and a mother who was continually reading, they both pushed us in the same direction.

Having ADHD, I had an issue sitting still and focusing and when they introduced books into my life, it helped a great deal. For instance, when finding the right book, I would take my psyche into an area where the character’s would hop out on to a motion picture screen where I would be sitting and watching the adventure. I would read it so quickly that I my mother didn’t trust I read every last bit of it and tell me to reread it. While in the library I would take hours to find books and genre that I wanted to