Reading Response To Anonymous

Reading Response to :A Text(no name): Anonymous

I believe the meaning of the text is that you can't always expect to get what you want out of life. I know this because in the book the author repeats it many times. She talks about how she did not get what she wanted and that life brought her to something better and by times life brought her to something worse. Example: ''sometimes you just don't get what you wish for, sometimes you get something better''.Another example of this meaning is that she often talks about how she always wanted more than just work and school, she wanted to love and discover but she never got a chance because life always kept her from doing what she loved.

The text by Anonymous reminded me of a time when I wanted

to become a dancer, I worked day and night to become the best of my class. One day, I was practicing and I felt a sharp pain in my ankle I later learned that it was broken and I had to abandon my dream of being a dancer if I ever wanted to walk again. The text and my experience are similar in the way that Anonymous and I both didn't get what we wanted and what we dreamed of because that was not what life wanted for us.

I like the author's use of the word ''life'' she makes it sound like life is a living thing deciding for us in ways we cannot understand. I think that the physical representation of life really helps the reader understand that it is life's plan for us to go a certain direction. The author was probably using this physical representation as a way to explain to us that there are just some things that are out of our control. I also like the fact that the author uses a lot of simile in her text. Example: 'The wind was blowing like a whisper in my ear''.I think the author did a great use of it because it really helped you understand the feeling and the way that in this case the wind was blowing.