Reading In The Memory Of Light By Stork

Benefits of Reading for Honors Students “Perhaps more than anything else, novels let us escape the prison of our skulls to get inside someone else’s head and experience a reality that is, as the name of the form suggests, completely and colorfully novel” (Aziz, “What Novels Teach Us”). In their classrooms, students sit in their courses ready to listen and learn. Honors students dig deep into their curriculum in order to reach their full potential. Books help prepare the students for future success. Reading is a teacher of important life lessons such as understanding other cultures, coping skills, empathy, and self-acceptance. Reading is a teacher to students of beneficial life skills, such as understanding other cultures. This particular

Honors students focus mainly on their studies, which can take away from them learning about themselves. Readers may struggle with an issue amongst themselves and feel alone, but literature can show them that they are not alone. A book that focuses on personal struggles is The Memory of Light by Francisco X. Stork. The novel follows Vicky, a girl who struggled with family issues and her grades, which in her suicide attempt. A suicidal or depressed student may feel as if no one around them understands them, and books help with that. A prominent example from the book is where the main character states of how “There’s two of [her]. The person [she carries] around like a dead carcass inside of [her] and the one [she] shows to others.” (Stork, 83) This example can be extremely important for a struggling student to read in order to feel understood and less alone. This demonstrates how books act as a mirror for honor students to see

Another argument is that books are only other people’s stories, or works of fiction. People may believe that there are other ways to success, more important than reading. When looking at the benefits that literature has to offer, these sorts of views are incorrect and ignorant. Reading is just as important to honors students’ academic careers, just like how writing and grammar are vital to understand. Without being able to read and comprehend, writing and grammar would be unnecessary. Literature about other people's’ stories is pertinent, because grammar and punctuation is incapable of teaching life skills such as coping and empathy. In response to the argument that reading is not as important as other ways to success, without reading science, mathematics, and history would be incomprehensible. Reading is the most vital key to success in a honors student’s