In Eudora Welty’s “One Writer’s Beginnings,” she shares the stories of her intellectual upbringings while connecting her earlier experiences with reading to her ability to learn and apply her knowledge as an adult. Welty’s believes that sensory education is important to children in developing the art of discovery as well as physical awareness (Welty 880). The connection of words and what they stand for plays an important role in Welty’s childhood and allows her to not only see a word, but to hear it as well (882). Eudora Welty’s literacy narrative, both person and cultural, brings purpose and life to her work. The incorporation of Welty’s parents and the environment in which she grows up in has significant importance.
Throughout Welty’s work,