Reading Neil Gaiman Analysis

Neil Gaiman sees reading being so important because he believes it’s a gateway drug to reading. Gaiman refers to it like that because he says

The drive to know what happens next, to want to turn the page, the need to keep going, even if it’s hard, because someone’s in trouble and you have to know how it’s all going to end … that’s a very real drive. And it forces you to learn new words, to think new thoughts, to keep going. To discover that reading per se is pleasurable. Once you learn that, you’re on the road to reading everything. And reading is key.

I can relate to this, there have been many books that I have read that I just couldn’t put down. I would start a book and finish it the same day because I just had to know what happened to …show more content…
We feel what the characters are feeling, we’re living what they are living. We get to check out of reality and live in the fictitious reality of whatever we’re reading.
My experience with reading growing up was not good. I struggled with learning how to read, and in second grade was finally taken out of class and worked with one-on-one. It was a long process that started out by making little books of stories that I had written, and then I slowly started being able to read. I was way behind the other kids in my grade. I really didn’t read much growing up, and as an adult I will read occasionally. If I’m reading something interesting, I will really get into it and finish it extremely fast. But I’m not a huge reader. I think struggling with reading in elementary school made me want to make sure that my children never struggled. I started reading to them while I was pregnant, and continued to read to them as they were growing up. They learned how to read at a young age and have loved it ever since. Going to the bookstore was/is exciting from them. It was fun to listen to them tell me what was happening in their books. I love that they still love to read as