p134-139 Eating Crow

To me this chapter symbolizes the way that many readers can connect with the book through the experience of having siblings just like Delphine can connect with Eunice. I think that part of forming connections, as Camangian did with and within his students through the use of autoethnographies is recognizing similarities as well as the respect of listening to someone’s story and the vulnerability of baring your own. Reading a book like this completes part of that process but without the response of our own story, the ritual has not been finished, leaving the experience superficial. I think as teachers we can encourage the competition of this process by sharing ourselves responding to the text with other people or even like this, in journal entries, a symbolic sharing of ourselves and our stories with ourself. Sharing requires an acknowledgment and a step forward with hands outstretched.