I read the Magic Tree House and felt as if I was right there. I also watched the Magic School Bus. It was an amazing; watching how incredibly detailed they described it. The magic school bus explored all kinds of places including inside the human body! Then I started reading books like “The Hobbit” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin”. The Hobbit explored magic and and conquering where as “The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin” took on an element from the past. The story told of Huck getting in trouble and making friends with a slave named Jim. I also loved Narnia. My favorite was “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe”. I was excited at the idea of walking into a new world through a closet. My imagination started running wild as I dreamed about going through doors and meeting a whole new place. I think back to the story we read in class about the little boy that learned to read through a superman comic, “I learned to read with a Superman comic book. Simple enough, I suppose. I cannot recall which particular Superman comic book I read…” I remember the simple things that got my love for adventure going. I cannot type a summary on every book I have ever read, but I can say the parts that sparked my …show more content…
I rode my first airplane and my idea on adventure changed. I spent two weeks going between Alaska and Canada. My eyes were opened to just how different North Carolina is from the rest of the world. I began writing about long distance trips and the sights my characters saw as they looked out the window of their Delta Airline plane. The lines to have baggage checked and the old lady that seems to have one thousand pill bottles in her bag. I wrote about the nervous feelings that come along with traveling across country and the motion sickness as the flight took turbulence. The feeling of finally landing. The excitement of getting the first stamp on your passport. The new flavors you taste from foods you 've never had