*Facilitating Sponsor/Withholding Sponsor
In Alexanders article she discusses the three main literacy narrative topics I am interested in and breaks them down into their own categories. Alexander explains that ‘victim narratives’ are narratives where the person telling the story has experienced a negative literacy moment in their life, this negative experience could have happened in or outside of school. ‘Outsider narratives’ are stories told about people who have felt left out of things or made fun of for either there level or skill in reading or writing. Lastly, she describes ‘success narratives’ as, “Literacy acquisition with success, liberation, development, progression, and upward mobility; invokes optimistic and future-looking rhetoric; views literacy as utilitarian and useful, a means to economic, cultural, social, and political success.

In Williams article he discusses the idea of “shifting identities” and how events, ‘sponsors’, and even peers can change one’s identity or better yet how they view literacy. Throughout the literacy narratives I have read and am interested in writing about, there is always a common theme; a sponsor or peer accompanied by a bad event that a student experiences at a young age that ruins reading or writing for them in some way. However, another common theme found in the stories I am interested in is that students with these difficult endeavors in their lives eventually find a ‘facilitating sponsor’ or other significant event in their life that helps them overcome the bad and focus on bettering themselves in the future through the joy of literacy.