Creation Myths And Literacy Narrative Essay

Creation Myths and Literacy Narratives There are two main similarities between the creation myths and the literacy narratives, For example, they both mention race and ethnicity. In the literacy narratives they mention blacks, whites, and Jewish people. In the creation myths they mention several different colors for instance, red, and yellow, black and white. There are also many differences between the myths and the literacy narratives. The creation myths are fictional and discuss the dawn of time, and the literacy narratives are nonfiction and discuss human race, slavery, and learning how to read and write. There are also differences between the Fredrick Douglass literacy narrative and the Gerald Graff literacy narrative.
The similarities between the myths and the literacy narratives are human race, and ethnicity. The Hopi and Potawatomi myths both mention the creation of humans of different colors such as yellow, red, white and black. “She made human beings, using yellow, red, white, and black earth mixed with her
“The world at first was endless space in which existed only the creator.” (“creation stories world”1) For example, in the majority of the myths it talks about how the world started off as a blank canvas and how the earth and nature was later slowly created by a God. In the Fredrick Douglass story, it talks about slavery and learning how to read and write. Being a slave made it very difficult for him to learn how to read and write because he had to sneak around to learn since blacks were not allowed to. “If I was in a separate room any considerable length of time, I was sure suspected of having a book.” (Douglass1) On other hand in the Gerald Graff narrative Graff didn’t enjoy reading when he was younger but later became an English teacher after he was introduced to a