Alexander explains the appeal of this particular narrative by making the connection between power of education to nature of development in particular students. The 2 rising Cairn stories that conform to this narrative are “literacy narrative” where a Girl in her Senior year was at a point where she was skipping class for multiple weeks at a time, through the support of her teacher Mr. White & hard work she passed her English class & got accepted into a college. The other story that appeals to this narrative is “the art crisis” basically about how this kid hates writing & Art. He strongly dislikes when he’s told what to write about, for him that takes out the fun in English class. He eventually finds that he loves writing when he chooses what to write about & discover on his own.
“ Master narrative’s in one’s personal story has many of these negative results including a naïve and partial understanding of literacy and one’s relationship with it”. “ whereas master narratives or orthodox and legitimate” These are 2 different quotes from Alexander confuse me what she actually thinks of master narratives. I am confident that Alexander has a negative view on National Guard is she refers to them as purely relying on stereotyping large groups of people. She expresses the master narratives make assumptions and base it’s work on grouping people into a category without really knowing.
“ Little narratives are unsanctioned artistic and imaginative they are less generalizable and more individualized and situated in fact little narratives assumed that literacy is multiple contextual an idea logical and they presented many truths about literacy not one truth.” Little narratives are often told by marginalized groups such as women and minorities, these stories run counter to dominant literacy myths. It seems as if the master narrative & little narrative are polar opposites of eachother. Little narratives are useful for students and literacy researchers because it can be out of your own mind you create it, as Alexander mentioned how “artistic” and “imaginative” they are. The 2 example from rising Cairn are “don’t knock it “ & “ parental Advisory”