A Brief Summary Of Burn Down The Ground By Kambri Crews

I read a memoir called Burn Down the Ground written by Kambri Crews. Kambri wrote about her rough childhood and growing up with two deaf parents. One parent, her father, was born completely deaf, and her mother was born with a little bit of hearing which was enhanced with hearing aids. Kambri acquired both English and ASL as a child, and still signs ASL and speaks English fluently. Kambri Crews' life story shows what it was like to be raised by deaf parents and how both the hearing world and Deaf culture impacted her life.
Kambri Crews could be considered both deaf and Deaf. She was active in the Deaf community when she was younger due to her parents, but as she grew up she had less affiliation with them. Kambri often acted as an interpreter for her parents, for example, when her dad was pulled over by a police officer or when calling to order plane tickets. She acquired both languages (ASL and English) at the same time. She acquired ASL from her parents and she said, "I learned to speak orally the way any hearing child does: by listening to the world around me" (Crews 19). She doesn't see deafness as a disability and she attended public school. Kambri Crews has a mixture of both deaf and Deaf traits, so she could be seen as both deaf and Deaf culturally.
I learned quite a few new facts about Deaf culture from reading

Kambri's life story was very interesting. I felt that I had enough information to write this paper before I even reached the hundredth page so I could have stopped reading, but I did not stop reading. Kambri's story was too interesting for me to put the book down. I would definitely recommend this book to any ASL student or anyone with an interest in Deaf Culture. It is not a hard book to read and her story is very compelling. Depending on how well I knew a person's interests, I may even recommend the book to someone not interested in Deaf