“Where I Learned How to Read” by Salvatore Scibona published in The New York, June 13 and 20, 2011, he talks about how hard school was for him, he failed in all of his classes and sometimes he also burned report card papers in his work at KFC, way Salvatore is trying to show us how did he loved his job by metaphorically using imagery “way dog loves a carcass in ditch” he hated one thing he wanted was to get out of Ohio and start carrier elsewhere.
Salvatore hated reading althought he was just swinging his eyes on the pages as he explained only he was doing it because the girl he loved was loved with the movie.
Salvador was in senior year when one of the girls from homeroom passed him a brochure that college sent her.
That was the moment when everything changed in his life. He expressed his feelings towards St.John college,there were no books, no homeworks everything he ever wanted was in that college but his parents couldn’t ever afford it.
He found his Intellectual Home fifteen hundred miles away he was willing to do anything to get in,“I would scrap everything and go to that place and ask them to let me in”.
Science he only goal was to get into college he started learning different subjects even though he never knew he existed,he worked as a construction worker but his body needed to be read.
Everything changed his entire life,he met new people,he also had friends which he had so much fun,he found his tribe as Salvatore describes to us friends as really happy and joeble.
In conclusion of Salvatores Scibona life since beginning totally changed from his point of view,he hated his previous life in Ohaio,as he mentions “I was a sad little boy and a standard-issue, shiftless, egotistical, dejected teen-ager”,but in the collage he found his life his Intellectual Home so far but he did,he found place his belongs.
Giorgi,
Thanks for this first post. I liked how you focused on the turning points of the brochure and his arrival to St. Johns.
-Prof. Scanlan