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I think blues songs and fairy tales relate a lot to literature. Literature can be presented in many different forms that can display a majority of messages through a song or story. I think anything that has history behind it can demonstrate a similarity to literature. For example, the history of blues and the lyrics relate back to late African American heritage in the segregated Deep South. Fairy tales can also tell a great deal of history just from being passed down from generation to generation. A lot of the time you can notice how stories have changed over time from being passed down and told many times.
The purpose of listening to blues and reading fairy tales in relation to literature, all serve the same purpose, which is simply for enjoyment and probably not much else. But do we read them in a similar way? Usually when I read something I try to get that sense of meaning out from whatever it is I’m interpreting, so I might read more cautiously or with a little self-composure. So overall I think how we read literature depends on what you try to take in from it.
I defiantly think these popular forms of literature are teachable, aren’t we being taught about it right now? I only think it’s teachable because in my opinion anything that can be read, has something to learn about.

I think the choices of language we pick affect our reading experience a lot. The sociolect that we read earlier “Uncle Remus” by Joel Chandler Harris was obviously very confusing and caught me off track from the story all together. Pronouncing what are supposed to be simple words constantly made me go back to re-read line after line. It’s quite possible that texts are written in a specialized style readable. I think maybe they are written in a certain way to affect the approach in which the reader follows. If I seem to put a lot of effort into reading something then it tells me a lot about the text, like it might be way out of my league and too hard to understand or simply not interesting for me to read. I think it tells a lot about what’s normal for language here at IUP also, because it shows that people don’t speak in that kind of direct language.