Personal Narrative: The Lightning Thief

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My local library was the first place I got to experience peace and quiet. It’s more of a sanctuary to me, rather than a large building filled with books. It helps keep me calm and collected. I went there by myself after school one day in 7th grade to get a book for some project and started reading it. No one bothered me and I was left alone to just read in peace. It’s also the first place I did something completely by myself. I felt an over whelming sense of independence, which I liked. It was relaxing. Since then I try to go at least once a week to experience this contentment. So I’m especially drawn to locations such as libraries. A place where I am completely content is the library. It is a quiet environment where I can be away from people. It is also very …show more content…

Occasionally I find myself just sitting there, enjoying the silence. It is a great place to let my imagination sore. Anything I could ever want or imagine is there. The first book I ever read more than once was The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. I loved being able to experience camp half blood over and over again. It wasn’t until this book that I really discovered my love for reading. Not only is it filled with fiction novels it also contains any information I could ever want to learn. I often find myself questioning many things and the library provides the information I need to know instead of just aimlessly wondering. Silence is another thing I can experience. It’s one of my favorite things and it is unfortunately not too common in my life. I go to a rather large school where silence is almost completely unheard of. At home the word is just as foreign. I have an eight-year-old brother who loves to hear him self-talk and a dog that barks at leaves falling. Every now and then I just need a break that I can get here. I am I rather anxious person and isolating myself from the world for a couple of hours a week really helps calm me

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