The power of words and language can be very influential to the lives of many. In both “In Love With Books” and “Black Boy”, there is a lot of emphasis on how writing and reading can change lives, but more specifically in “Black Boy”.
In Eurora Welty’s writing about growing up with books, she mentions her mother and how she read to her every day no matter where they were in the house. This is where her love for books really started. She describes her mother as an “expressive reader” (Welty 28) and talks about how you can really understand how she is feeling when she is reading and you can hear her opinions in her tone. For Welty, her life was more heavily influenced through the extreme abundance of reading in her life, rather than how a specific
In Eurora Welty’s writing about growing up with books, she mentions her mother and how she read to her every day no matter where they were in the house. This is where her love for books really started. She describes her mother as an “expressive reader” (Welty 28) and talks about how you can really understand how she is feeling when she is reading and you can hear her opinions in her tone. For Welty, her life was more heavily influenced through the extreme abundance of reading in her life, rather than how a specific