Personal Narrative: My Love Of Reading Books

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My past wasn’t filled with millions or billions of books reading wasn’t even something I enjoyed to do, my family loves to read books, me on the other hand I despised them. My family was constantly encouraging me to read whether it was a child’s book, a novel , or a series , a trilogy anything they could get me hooked on just to keep me occupied , and so I could have something to focus on . The past , my past it wasn 't the greatest I had an abusive, alcoholic , drugged up father sometimes I wonder whether he loved me , despised me , or if he even misses me now .One day my father could be a loving and considerate person but on those off days you never knew what to expect , I could wake up in the middle of the night hearing yelling or screaming …show more content…
So as I thought more and more about it the answer finally came to me that I had plenty of time during the beginning of school. At the beginning of every day I would go to my teachers class , and every morning I read about 30 minutes to an hour. Obviously I only finished a couple books not the whole series within a year I read at least four books. I decided that I wanted to finish the rest of the series , when I was born Warner Brothers Studios had already began making movies for the Harry Potter series …show more content…
Now I only read two books in my sophomore year and one of them was a school required reading and the other was a book by choice. You see I wasn 't very excited to have to read during school especially since we had to take tests over the books ,and because we always had a deadline which was very dissatisfying to me because I like to take my time and examine the story and try and comprehend it better and figure out what is going to happen next. last year during English III we were reading the Book “How to Kill a Mockingbird” .
In the beginning the story was very slow and boring not as vivid as other book’s. This book was about a story of a black man being convicted for rape against a woman and there are these kids the finch’s who have a father named atticus finch who is a lawyer defending the slave that was convicted for rape. Obviously there was only a small chance they would succeed in discovering the truth and presenting it to the court the reason it was only a small chance of winning is because most would just the convicted as a rapist because of his

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