Functioning in an oral based community

I began reading "Protean Shapes in literacy events: Ever-Shifting Oral and Literate Traditions and was drawn to the story about the girl scout. I have myself answered the door to a girl scout and breifly held the order sheet in my hand looking down as if to read her sheet. I also didnt read the folder but listened to the girl scout explain her name, what she was selling, and who it would benefit, even though it was in my hand in print. It is true that many literacy events can be used as speech events. The town Trackton was very interesting to me. In this town, speech is focused on more than writing and reading. Because of this, adults and children are good story tellers. Although, they have no sence of struture because of the lack of familiairity with writing structure. Instead of reading on their own, everyone read together, and discussed orally their problems. Even though it would have taken much less time to breifly read something, they were more comfortable talking it over for an hour or more time. Literacy in Tracton is only justa s a resource. I found Trackton very interesting and it broaden my views on speech literacy.