Gerald Graff's Disliking Books

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Gerald Graff grew up loathing books which is ironic because he majored in English. Graff is an English professor at the University of Illinois and wrote the essay “Disliking Books.” Graff received his PhD in English and American Literature from Stanford University. He feels that his childhood struggle with reading gives him an advantage as a teacher to help his students who struggle in reading.

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The Language of Literary Criticism Gerald Graff, a Stanford educated professor of English at the University of Illinois, hasn't always held a predisposition towards the Liberal Arts. As a young boy he was unable to grasp any meaning from books he was forced into. Growing up in an ethnically diverse Chicago neighborhood with working class counterparts, Graff found his distaste for literature a side effect of being potential bully bait. As he approached adulthood however, he leaned into literature as a means of avoiding his disinterest in other disciplines such as law or medicine. During his time at the University of Illinois and later years at the University of Chicago, Graff continued his ongoing battle with literary relevance he fought little

A Summary of Gerald Graff’s “Disliking Books” Gerald Graff’s disliking books starts off as him declaring that his early fear of reading made him a better teacher to his students. It seems he had a lot of pressure put on him to read from his father who would push him to read, but Graff never became interested in reading likely because it felt forced if he was to enjoy reading it would have to come naturally. And though he speaks of his childhood in a sort of rough manner being a culturally mixed neighborhood and that the rougher working class children might beat him up if he was too peculiar or different or intellectual. He enjoyed the more practical pursuits in math and science rather than literature, as they would apply to everyday life and would make a good career field to go into, and when Gerald was child, boys who were bookworms were deemed "sissies" and beaten up.