Personal Narrative: My Interest In English Class

When I was in elementary and middle school I didn't really have a subject preference. I was just okay at every subject and I couldn't find myself interested in anything particular. I didn't feel lost because I had plenty of time to decide what I wanted for myself that would make me happy. After a certain point in my life though, I have always had a preference for English, a preference that I didn't act on until recently. That's not the story that I want to tell. I want to introduce what initially brought me to this interest; a human rights class.
When I was about to start high school, there was a list of classes that I could take. I didn't have any Idea what I wanted at all, anything would suffice. There was a moment where I was looking through and I saw a class that just read Human Rights: MaryAnn Hansen. I honestly didn't fully understand what that class entailed, but I decided to take it and see. When I started high school, they were in the middle of changing the school schedule, making it inherently longer than it had been in the …show more content…
It was the literature. Ms. Hansen always had us reading something about what we were learning that week, and those pieces of literature were why I began to develop and interest. I have never read anything like what she had me read. The great part is at least one third of the time what we were reading in this human rights class were what we also were reading in our honors English class. I can recall reading Farewell to Manzanar, Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Martin Luther King Jr. Famous speeches, the words of Ghandi, Black Man In A White Mans Court by Nelson Mandela, and much more pieces of influential human rights literature. This literature was very influential to me because I've never felt anything from literature before taking this class that hardly anyone would take. We would talk about what we read and how it made us feel, and she would help me understand what I was