Listening

Paula Jackson

Professor Cynthia McNamara

English 1301

13 February 2012

Listening - Journal

Eudora Welty writing the story Listening was to persuade the readers that her experience of language largely involved listening , even to the words she read. Welty reflects on her own literary skill in her autobiographical account of her development as a writer, One Writer’s Beginnings (1983). Welty does an excellent job describing her childhood reading experience , therefore , giving readers a sense of understanding on how she became a writer. Welty learned from the age of two or three that any room in her home , at any time of day , was there to read in , or to be read to .Welty said , one measure of her love for Our Wonder World was that for a long time she wondered if she would go through fire and water for it as her mother had done for Charles Dickens; and the only comfort was to think she could ask her mother to do it for her. Welty believe she was the only child she knew that grew up with Our Wonder World , the Book of Knowledge. Eudora Welty supports her story by stating, ever since she was first read to , then started reading to herself , there has never been a line read that she didn’t hear. As her eyes followed the sentence , a voice was saying it silently to her. It isn’t her mother’s voice or the voice of any person she can identify , certainly not her own. Eudora Welty makes her writing so effective to her readers by her style or writing .Welty does an excellent job in making her story as believable and realistic to the reader to set the mood for everyone with all of her solid details in order to show how movement must be at the very heart of listening.

This story has a strong connection with my childhood , something I will always carry with me. As, a little girl growing up from infant to the age of four or five my mother reading from the Golden Book’s and Dr.Suesus . I can relate too,...