Reading Reflection

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When one reads, one gains knowledge, and when one gains knowledge, one gains power. A world of no reading, would be a world of nothing. There wouldn’t be historical writings of the Great Depression, there wouldn’t informative documents about what is happening in Washington DC, and there wouldn’t even be romantic tales of vampires and ware wolves fighting over the same girl. The human brain would be the equivalent of the common beast if we didn’t read. This is a lesson I’ve had to learn the hard way in my life. Literacy has always been there for me to grasp, but my will to grasp it has always been the issue. When I was younger, my parents were extremely involved in my literacy. They put me through pre-school where I would learn basic fundamentals of reading and writing. I was also born into a church family, where I would go to church …show more content…

Reading wasn’t just something I didn’t do anymore, but something that I learned to resent. The passages continued to become more and more complex while my reading level became stagnant. However, when seventh grade came around, I had an English teacher who was incredibly passionate about reading. Despite this, she understood most of my class did not feel the same way. She would go on to find books that would spark our interest. These selections would include The Hunger Games, Riding the Flume, and Old Yeller. My class, to my fortune, would choose The Hunger Games as our book for daily class readings. Our class would then go on to read snippets of the book on a daily basis in hopes that it would inspire us to want to read on our own. For me, it was a success. The snippets weren’t enough for me. I started to read it on my own during free time in class. I then started reading it in all of my classes, and eventually during any free time I had at home. The book turned into the entire series. Page by page, I became a reader again. I would pick up any book that my teacher would suggest to

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