Personal Narrative: The Way I Read

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go,” wrote Dr. Seuss. People read all the time. They read information, newspapers, blogs, and Facebook. A recent survey by The U.S Department of Education and The Nation Institutes of Literacy shows that 32 million adults cannot read and write. The number of people who actually read a book in past year was 80 percent; however, 24 percent of them are the age between 20 to 35 years old. I am one of those readers. As I consider, my reading experience, I realize that they represent journey I have traveled, leading me to my current academic path.
As a child, I was not interested in reading; however, my grandmother sang to me and read me many

Joseph, who taught me English. Even though I had been studying English since the third grade, Mr. Joseph pushed me a lot to master the language. I was always depending on someone to motivate me-- whether at home or school. Mr. Joseph always gave words of an advice and encouragement to read more books. When I was in fifth grade, English was my weakness subject.
Three years later, in the eighth grade, we read several books: The Phantom Tollbooth, The Beauty and the Princess, Puss in Boots, Little Red Riding Hood, and others. I like action and romance books. My favorite book that I read when I was in eighth was the Beauty and the Beast. This book is amazing to read, and it also shows lots of action and mystery. This book strengthened me mentally because of this quote: “How can you read this? There’s no pictures!” The reply was, “Well, some people use their imagination.” I came to United States when I was a freshman in high school. However, reading English in America is much different and I was faced with new words and accents. Students used to make fun of me when I read in English, but I was not discouraged about my reading style. When they started laughing, I always kept reading as vociferous as I could. When I was a sophomore student, I built a little confidence with reading English, and I was familiar with many words. As I was junior and senior year, we read many books. I remember when read Beowulf. This books is terse and non-fiction