I remember my teacher saying, “Not all heroes wear capes”, and without any doubt recall writing about my mother. She has sacrificed all of herself to make sure I would become an educated young lady. Without her endless amounts of time dedicated on reading and writing I would have not have come close to being the first person in my family to go attend college. Writing and reading are tools for communication. I cannot express how much I love my mother and sometimes I feel that I do not say it enough and writings are a perfect way to communicate how one feels. When I lost my father a day after my birthday, I did not want to speak to a single soul. My teacher had told me that people cope with issues differently and to give writing a go. Every day I sat in my bed and started emotionally filling up pages to get me through the roughest stage of my life. Teachers shape our future, and the only teacher that made a significant impact in my reading, writing, and experiences was my high school senior year language arts professor. She saw protentional in me and it showed in our sessions on how to improve my writing skills developing me into the reader and writer as of today. The connection made from reading and writing is reading has enhanced my vocabulary, exposed me to other styles, voices, and genres. In which all have depicted in my papers over the …show more content…
Attending Kennesaw State University, first year students are required to take on a seminar class. In the following class I was assigned to choose a book of any choice from the given list of someone different from me. Questions ran across my head on the purpose of such reading till all three hundred and seventy-two pages of “The Kite Runner” was read. I was surprised to have liked the book because it was way out of my level of interest. Readings and writings allow us to paint a picture and allows us to escape from reality. No matter where I am as soon as a book is opened, I feel that a portal hole has opened taking me to a whole new world. What fascinates me about reading and writing is how much we began to unravel and discover about ourselves when we allow ourselves to be exposed to change. When we began to read we start expanding our knowledge and when we began to write we use the knowledge we have gained from readings in our writing. Overall expanding our horizons.
My appreciation for reading and writing is profound. I feel that reading and writing allows one to succeed in school, is an important form of communication in all walks in life, and overall a boost of wild imagination and creativity. Reading and writing is different for every individual. For children, its learning the basics in life such as the alphabet, for a parent it could be for helping their child with homework, but for me it goes to show my