My Substitute Capabilities
Two women solve a murder with their instincts in a suspenseful story written by Susan Glaspell called “A Jury of Her Peers”. The characters in “A Jury of Her Peers”, precisely the women, each used an alternative literacy to understand what events went on the day a farmer’s wife committed a crime. Alternative literacy is one’s ability to interpret actions of living things or events through counts of practice and knowledge of the matter. Reading animals and people are the alternative literacies I acquired through everyday experiences, and seek to obtain more. When I was young I used to find stray animals and take them in as my own. I could tell which animals would want to be saved by their look of desperation and urgency to find food or shelter. Once I have taken an animal in to help, I start to know their animal calls and body language. I had to train my pets to follow commands, do tricks, and be tamed enough to be indoors. Each animal call or any special type of reaction is different to its needs and wants. It’s just like having kids. This instinct is almost the same as to how I react to my children. The cries and actions they give.
I am very articulate when it comes to caring for my children. I know who they are because of how they talk, act, or feel. My ability to understand and interpret my daughter’s cries or …show more content…
Applying my abilities with whatever I do daily will enable me to become intact with whatever I approach, and explore many other alternative literacies. The story “A Jury of Her Peers” helped me notice how to use experiences to interpret how to make sense of the world around. The same way Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters used their own womanly experiences to solve a murder case. They did this by figuring out what Mrs. Wright had in state of mind at the time she did the
Two women solve a murder with their instincts in a suspenseful story written by Susan Glaspell called “A Jury of Her Peers”. The characters in “A Jury of Her Peers”, precisely the women, each used an alternative literacy to understand what events went on the day a farmer’s wife committed a crime. Alternative literacy is one’s ability to interpret actions of living things or events through counts of practice and knowledge of the matter. Reading animals and people are the alternative literacies I acquired through everyday experiences, and seek to obtain more. When I was young I used to find stray animals and take them in as my own. I could tell which animals would want to be saved by their look of desperation and urgency to find food or shelter. Once I have taken an animal in to help, I start to know their animal calls and body language. I had to train my pets to follow commands, do tricks, and be tamed enough to be indoors. Each animal call or any special type of reaction is different to its needs and wants. It’s just like having kids. This instinct is almost the same as to how I react to my children. The cries and actions they give.
I am very articulate when it comes to caring for my children. I know who they are because of how they talk, act, or feel. My ability to understand and interpret my daughter’s cries or …show more content…
Applying my abilities with whatever I do daily will enable me to become intact with whatever I approach, and explore many other alternative literacies. The story “A Jury of Her Peers” helped me notice how to use experiences to interpret how to make sense of the world around. The same way Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters used their own womanly experiences to solve a murder case. They did this by figuring out what Mrs. Wright had in state of mind at the time she did the