"Stone Soup" January 17, 2012

The literacy that Barbara Kingsolver is describing in this piece is different types of marriages and how even non-nuclear families can be just as much of a family as nuclear ones. She is literate at understanding what people go through in life and how they make do with what has happened to them, for whatever reason.

My general reaction to this piece is that Barbara Kingsolver has the right idea and a mindset that everybody should use when it comes to looking at others' marriages. She herself was a single mother so she went through it all and knows more than I can even imagine. I loved her comparison of judging divorced families as choosing a book by its cover. You really don't know anything about the story before you actually open it up and read. In the beginning of the story she described a non-nuclear family cheering on their son who just scored the winning goal in soccer, and she makes a point that nobody would be able to tell that the family is not traditional. She used to want to be part of her "Family of Dolls," until she realized that realistically, families are not dolls.