Writing college level body paragraphs (group 3)

In “Poets in the Kitchen,” Paule felt that her inspiration came from the women in the kitchen, and although she felt that they “trained her ears,” it was actually all of her reading that she did in the library while waiting for the women to finish their cocoa and tea. Paule was supposed to sit quietly at the library and the only thing to do was read. As she had mentioned she “was sheltered from the storm of adolescence in the Macon Street Library, reading voraciously, indiscriminately, everything from Jane Austen to Zane Grey, but with a special passion for the long, full-blown, richly detailed eighteenth and nineteenth-century picaresque tales.” Of course the more you read the more you can understand and appreciate the beauty of a book, and Paule learned to love reading. Through her reading, she stumbled across poetry by Paul Dunbar, whom she found she could relate to. She fell in love with his poetry and how it spoke to her. She became broadminded and empathetic to what she read. If not for the library Paule would not have fallen in love with reading nor stumble across Paul’s poetry. She would have never encountered such a person in her school readings; they did not speak of such people back then, and thus developing her desire of someday writing.