In class we have discussed the difference between the small epiphany's and the big epiphany's. I sat back and started to realize that most of my epiphany's are small ones. And I keep trying to look back at when I decided I wanted to be an english major and in that moment I did have an epiphany, but it was a rather small one. So I have been thinking about when I first really fell in love with books, and reading.
When speaking about show and tell today, it brought me back to a memory of my first show and tell (well at least my earliest memory of show and tell). I was in 2nd or 3rd grade I believe. I brought in my copy of Shel Silversteins 'Where the Sidewalk Ends'. My grandparents had sent me the book for a Valentines Day. Which now just seems really ironic,but in side of the first page my grandparents wrote me a small note saying that they knew I would love all the poems in the book. I remember feeling like a 'big girl' because it wasnt one of those large printed books you get at school. It was something that spoke to me and that I truly enjoyed. I know that was the first book that i absolutely fell in love with. I think alot of it had to do with that fact that the poems where ones that I could read myself, and there were pictures, but most of all, I could fully understand the poems. So with this memory I am gonna say that when i was just a youngster, in the early stages of my schooling career, I had my first Epiphany dealing with books.
While reading the 7th chapter in 'Willows', I knew right at that moment that what I was reading was the 'Ahhh' type of Epiphany. When I was reading through it my heart was picking up beat, I was reading even faster, and as silly as it may sound, it felt that I too could hear the music that was leading the Rat and Mole to their moment of Epiphany. I found it so intreseting that 1. Pink Floyd actually named an album after this chapter, and 2. that Van Morrison has a song about this chapter. I think that I may have had just a 'oooh' Epiphany in class. Because with all the talk about music, I realized that either my Epiphany's have dealt with literature, or music, and mostly music.
