The Very Hungry Caterpillar Short Story

I remember the first time I ever read a book on my own. It was The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle when I was four years old. It was my favorite book that my mother used to read to me as a baby and toddler. As I got older, my mother would start to guide me to sound out the words and be able to go on by myself. I would read it over and over again to get better at reading and understanding what I was reading. Once I got the hang of it, I started to move on to the Magic Tree House series and got lost in the mysterious time travel adventures of Jack and Annie to the time of the dinosaurs or the ninjas which I loved when I was a kid. I loved the series for the way it captured my imagination, so I again reread them many times for fun and for …show more content…
The boredom and disinterest in the text caused me to skim the pages instead of reading carefully and critically like the teachers always tirelessly preached to me. This brings me to another thing that annoyed me as I progressed through school English classes. The way they made us analyze every detail of every text and dissect every page to figure why the author did certain things in the particular way they did and how and what they were trying to express. This made the books even more tiresome to go through because of being told that I had to figure how and why the author did everything while still trying understand the plot and characters. This was a problem in my senior year of high school when we had to read a series of short stories that were so boring and confusing to me, but we were forced figure out every nook and cranny of their literary technique and I was absolutely lost. When it came time for the essay test where we had to compare and contrast the literary elements of the stories, I was almost clueless of what to write and I nearly failed the test. My dislike for reading has persisted on into college even before classes started when I had to read the whole six hundred page Iliad in the week before the first day of classes for Western Civilization which was the most I had ever read and in the shortest period of time I had to read a