The people who did not contributed to Anaya's interest in words and learning in "In Commemoration: One Million Volumes"? are C. his childhood friends. His homeland and parental approach to nurturing had a great influence on his intereset in writing, and that can be seen in the contents of the story: he described how his religious parents made him study a lot; the description of a small library came as a result of the small town he was raised in. And Miss Pansy, the librarian was one of the most influential people who encouraged the writer to release his dreams of writing.