Reflective Essay: How Beth March Changed My Life

The room was dark and it was raining as soft music played in the background. However, it wasn’t just raining outside because tears were also raining down my face in what a weatherman would have affectionately called a heavy down poor. Beth March, from Little Women, had just passed beyond the earthly realm into the pearly gates of heaven. And, as a fifth grader for reasons I could not tell you at the time I was crying my own personal rainstorm in my bedroom while it rained outside my window. I Remember the day as if it happened yesterday. Although it seems rather mundane in some instances it is a moment in time that forever changed my life for the better. The truth is, when I walk into a library I act like a kid in a candy store. I was that kid who always had a book to indulge myself in no matter the time or place. Too put it simply when I was brought forth from my mother’s womb I had a book in my hand. Therefore, it is safe to assume that in fifth grade I was the student who not only loved when the teacher told us to read silently to ourselves, I was also the student who adored library time at school. …show more content…
However, looking back now I know exactly what happened that night on the bedroom floor. The fact is, I had read just about every single genre of book that existed by the time I was eleven, but I had never read a classic before that night. I this remember night forever because I can point back to that night as the moment in time when my reading habits changed forever as well as when I began to change as a human being. Little Women was the first book that I had ever read where the main character died and failed to make it to the last page of the novel alive. Pride and Prejudice was a story that taught me a great deal about what it is to simply be human and what it truly means to live