Text That Shaped My Life

Texts that shaped my life

Text are everywhere in our daily lives and we come across all kinds of texts everyday. Some of the texts are useless and what we usually do it to ignore them while others are essential to us, these texts are the ones that shape our lives. In the book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, the speech of the author’s master enlightened the author that lack of knowledge is the reason why black people were slaved by the white, thus he learned to read and write by all means and finally gained his freedom. In the article Superman and Me, author Sherman Alexie had a strong interest in reading his father’s books, which bloomed his literary career later in life. The speech was an important text that shaped Frederick’s …show more content…
The encouragement of my diving coach is an important text for me because the text encourages me to explore new fields without fear. Back in 2006, my family had a trip to Hainan Island in southern China. The most attractive activity to me, as I remember, was the sea diving. We put on diving suit, got on our boat and arrived at the diving place. However, I got frightened when we were going to dive into the water because it was the first time I dive and the world underwater was totally unknown to me. I stepped back and murmured: “Sorry, but I can’t go into the water, I can’t dive.” “I guarantee that the world under the sea is way more interesting than the land, think about it, and think about your dream. Don’t lose the opportunity to explore it because of your fear! Don’t lose the chance to fulfill your dream because of your fear!” my coach encouraged me, “If you are really afraid, just keep in mind that I am with you. I will protect you.” he continued. His words sank deep into my heart and really made me rethought. I was attracted by the beautiful sea world on TV and I was always dreaming about exploring it on my own, now I am step to achieve my dream, how …show more content…
As the movie showed, the chief editor of a high fashion magazine Miranda Priestly was a woman of high competence. Her magazine was regarded as a fashion guide and she was known as a fashion authority. However, many people have an ill feeling on her because her life was an opposite to her career. She divorced many times because no men could tolerate her power. At first I thought she was an emotionless working machine. However, the dragon lady showed her soft part at the end of the movie: Miranda set on the sofa,unlike her powerful appearance through the movie, she wore no make up and dressed in a pajamas. she then opened up to her assistance, explaining how sad she felt when the newspapers wrote her divorces and how sorry she felt for her daughter, but when I thought that she was about to cry, she sighed and drew her conversation back to work. When her assistance asked was there anything else she could do, Miranda looked at her with a determined eyes, nodded her head strongly and said “ Yes,your job.” The strong woman impressed me a lot when I understood why she could thrive her career, it was responsibility that bloomed her magazine.Just as she implied, what you can do is your job. Miranda should be responsible for her job, thus she totally applied her self to her career and devoted all her effort to