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Defense The discursive shift to the novel, ‘Grandmother and I’, written by Helen E. Buckley, and illustrated by Jan Ormerod, aims to reposition the reader by use of different perspectives and dialog to the base text, and by introducing composition, or balance to illustrations that support the resistant reading. This reading can only be resistant if the invited reading is justified; hence the following paragraph explains the reading practice involved in extracting meaning from the text. “Different reading practices help produce different readings and subsequently re-writings, or transformations, of a base text”, therefore by stating the invited reading was that there exists a special relationship between grandmother and granddaughter, the reading practise involved in extracting this is important. (Johnson, G. 2001, p.48) The reading is centred on family, and therefore its acceptance is largely dependent upon cultural ideology. Consequently, a world-context reading practice is employed for this book, as the text and illustrations put forward many cultural and ideological assumptions about relationships, such as the bond between grandmother and granddaughter, social customs like the purpose for other family mem