How To Read Literature Truly Interested Me

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This piece of literature truly interested me because it was so easy to read for me. Although the vocabulary was quite advanced, the flow of the sentences and what it was talking about made it very easy to follow along to and get interested in. It was almost as though I was right with the main character and going through the same difficulties he was when he had to leave his mother and his sweetheart for going across the sea to conquer new land, but then had the difficulties that came with preparing to cross the sea and conquer this new land. There were many emotions that I felt while reading this passage and I think that is why it was so easy to read. A few things about the reading that really sparked my attention was how the reading was about

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