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In the article Protean Shapes in Literacy events, Heath defines literacy event as " a conceptual tool useful in examining within particular communities of modern society the actual forms and functions of oral and literate traditions and co-existing relationships between spoken and written language."(371) Furthermore, Heath explains literacy event as "any occasion in which a piece of writing is integral to the nature of participants interactions and their interpretive process."(371) The author explores a community in the Carolina in 1969 and 1979 where she study the Trackton community. The Trackton community was all black working-class community. Heath explored their  literacy event. The Trackton children learned language and how to read and write through oral stories the adults told them. The children recognized certain things like patterns and shape through linking what they hear in the stories. Most parents teach their children by repetition of objects or reading words printed in a book. The study of the Trackton community can be applied to Sherman Alexie's "The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me." because the narrative is about a young indian boy who teaches himself how to read through comic books. Alexie's had his own literacy events, he didn't learn to read and write the traditional way, just like the Trackton community.