2. Linda taught John to read because she wanted to attempt to be a good mother, and the only thing she could provide him from the society she came from was how to read. She drew pictures of animals on a wall and wrote sentences that describe them underneath. When she got left behind on the Reservation, she had brought only one book with her, which were instructions for an embryo-store worker, so she gives it to John to read. However, it was incredibly difficult for him to read it, and he could not understand most of the words in it. The more the boys on the Reservation taunted and teased him, the more he felt that he would never fit in, so he decided to continue reading. He thought that his unique ability to read proved that he was better than
