In David Lee’s victim Literacy Narrative, he talks about his life and when he was in high school he had to take a really long test and he corrected it and he got a answer wrong but it was really right. “The popularity of the victim narrative in student texts indicates that students associate school-based literacy practices with oppression and even cruelty.” (Alexander). Alexander goes over how even know students are trying to learn they are met by cruelty. Even when David was talking to his teacher he still couldn’t get the answer changed. “When asked to reflect on past experiences in the confines of the literacy narrative, they remember these experiences that haunted them and took away their freedoms.” (Alexander). Even when kids do the right thing and then get the wrong answer they are a lot less likely to study for the next exam if they were suppose to get a higher grade on the first one and didn’t because the teacher marked something wrong. This agrees with the text from Alexander because it shows how students can do good things and get penalized for it.

In Nathan Kamel’s victim Literacy Narrative, he talks about how he really enjoyed his reading class his freshman year because he liked his teacher a lot but when sophomore year came around he started to hate it so it ruined english class for him. “Paterson also found students who wrote about being stigmatized through their literacy experiences, particularly in school where is the victim of bad or insensitive teaching.” (Brandt) I think the Nathan’s Literacy Narrative agrees with the texts from Brandt. Nathan was liking english and looking forward to sophomore year when he had that joy taken away from him do to bad teaching. Nathan would talk about how when the teacher doesn’t like you, that you can become an outcast in the class. “Such students, Paterson noted, often wrote about themselves as being invisible or used metaphors about being unclean or outcast from the world of literacy.” (Brandt) He does an excellent job of describing the way that Nathan felt in his english class.