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Melanie Luken's essay, Literacy: A Lineage, which is about her history of why she enjoys literature and her progression throughout life. She really grabs the reader when she starts the essay by talking about the one person who inspired her to enjoy literacy and all its things. After she mentions that that person was/is her father. Also at the beginning, she told the reader about a very personal tradition she has with her father, which adds emotion to the story, it makes it even more personal than it already is. This story is told chronologically starting with her childhood to now in the present. Melanie also mentions her brother and how he didn't grow up to be the same as her, even though their father hoped so. So all of Melanies childhood experiences from having to write stories for her father every christmas to sharing the love of literature with her father led up to her pursuing out that dream of becoming a writer. Even though Melanie Lukens got a major in French she still realizes that the comfort she gets from reading and writing in English will never be the same in a foreign language. Lukens has a special bond that she gets, a certain satisfaction she feels from literature and all that it includes.