The first time I began to read was in kindergarten, I don’t recall the exact moment I began reading since it was so long ago, but the first books I read were books with pictures and very little words. In about the second grade I started reading The Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne up until halfway through the fourth grade. The next series of books I fell in love with was R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps series, which lasted throughout the sixth grade. In middle school, I started to read J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. My favorite types of books are book series. I do enjoy books that don’t have another to follow every now and then as well. Throughout high school I drifted away from reading, because being forced to read books I didn’t
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Then I sat next to a girl who was always reading in class and asked one day asked her what her book was about. The book was called Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, it was a book about suicide and why thirteen different people were the reason why. After she was done reading the book, she let me read it and I made the biggest connection with the girl who had committed suicide, because she had moved to a new school and that is where all her problems began. That book got passed around different girls in my grade, and I feel that if it weren’t for that book, no one would have made the effort to become my friend, because after a few girls had read it people became more friendly. If that book hadn’t entered my life I believe I would have gone in a completely different direction The rest of my time in middle school I made a lot of friends because of books. The girls I was friends with would just pass books around and that is how we connected with one …show more content…
Graff was a Jew who grew up in an ethnically mixed Chicago neighborhood so being a bookworm would have been a decisive reason to get beaten up (23). As he grew older the fear of being beaten up for reading was replaced by the fear of flunking out of college. His lack of reading when he was younger made it difficult for him to do academic reading (24). He finally came to appreciate literature by reading the critics in his college years. That is what the moment that encapsulates him as a reader and a teacher. For me, my race didn’t drive be to pretend like I didn’t like learning, it drove me to do the very best I could at an early age. I don’t think that race should hold you back from your education, it should push you to get all that you can out of
Then I sat next to a girl who was always reading in class and asked one day asked her what her book was about. The book was called Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, it was a book about suicide and why thirteen different people were the reason why. After she was done reading the book, she let me read it and I made the biggest connection with the girl who had committed suicide, because she had moved to a new school and that is where all her problems began. That book got passed around different girls in my grade, and I feel that if it weren’t for that book, no one would have made the effort to become my friend, because after a few girls had read it people became more friendly. If that book hadn’t entered my life I believe I would have gone in a completely different direction The rest of my time in middle school I made a lot of friends because of books. The girls I was friends with would just pass books around and that is how we connected with one …show more content…
Graff was a Jew who grew up in an ethnically mixed Chicago neighborhood so being a bookworm would have been a decisive reason to get beaten up (23). As he grew older the fear of being beaten up for reading was replaced by the fear of flunking out of college. His lack of reading when he was younger made it difficult for him to do academic reading (24). He finally came to appreciate literature by reading the critics in his college years. That is what the moment that encapsulates him as a reader and a teacher. For me, my race didn’t drive be to pretend like I didn’t like learning, it drove me to do the very best I could at an early age. I don’t think that race should hold you back from your education, it should push you to get all that you can out of