Excerpt 1 of My Ill Literacy Narrative

In excerpt 1 of the narrative we discussed in English today we  talked about the relationship the author and her brother shared and how that affected her literacy and her perspective of the world.  I feel that I can easily relate to this situation.  I am a proud big sister to my younger brother, Tony, who's seventeen.  I love him dearly and we share a deep bond.  I feel that because we are so close in age and that there is only the two of us our relationship is closer than most siblings.  I completely understand the auothers feelings from this excerpt.  My brother and I would show sibling affection to each other in the comfort of our home but at school we acted almost as strangers toward one another.  "Showing love in public reveals an exploitable weakness." is a quote from this excerpt that I fully understand.  The two of us followed this statement and we had a good advantage over other sibings.  We look nothing alike.  I look exactly like my mother who is Native American and my brother looks exactly like my father who is caucasion.  But I vividly remember the day our siblingship was revealed.  On this particular day we visited the office with our mother for some reason or another  and a boy from my brothers class just happened to be sitting in there and observed as our mother kissed the both of us goodbye.  After that the boy would threaten Tony saying he would slap me if  he didn't give him his lunches everyday.  One day I was sick of it and in my protective state I confronted this boy and to my surprise he actually slapped me.  This then resulted in my brother and I engaging in a fight with him (we won of course =] ) which then resulted in us being suspended.  Even though our sibling relationship was revealed there were no negative outcomes from other peers becasue after that fight, nobody wanted to mess with me and my little brother.