Affirming: Majority of my paper is spent affirming ideas that Alexander addressed in her paper. In my paper I reaffirm the concept of child prodigies and how child prodigy narratives often end up being a success narrative.
Adding: I also add to Alexander’s idea of child prodigies by addressing the idea of there being two paths that child prodigies tend to follow, a positive path and a negative path. I stated that when a prodigy narrative doesn’t end in a success narrative it usually becomes some sort of negative narrative, victim, rebel or other. I want to add to the Alexander’s definitions of victim and rebel to have them apply more directly to my literacy narratives.
Challenging: I don’t agree with the way Alexander defines a victim and rebel, in my paper the closest possible option to what happens in their literacy narrative after the child prodigy phase would be either victim or rebel but they do not fit well into either of those categories. In my final draft I want to look to expand and change the way that Alexander defines these literacy narratives or to possibly add my own definition and term that best fits the types of literacy narratives that I read.
