Vargas Llos My Passion For Writing

As Vargas Llosa stated in his essay, in the world we live today, most people dedicate little to no time to literature. However, I am one of the exceptions, as I have, for the longest time, been an avid reader and a persistent writer. As for researcher, well, my story for that one is very different. For starters, I believe that to understand my passion for literature, I have to explain my background a bit. My father, like me, is a fanatic of knowledge and books and my mother, although loathsome to read anything other than the Bible or the newspaper, has always encouraged my habit for reading. Together, they have raised me with the outmost passion for the written word, ensuring, at large, that said passion grew and grows. As such, to this day, I usually allow myself a few minutes a day to read some source of literature or another, varying in a range from a chapter on a novel to a short story. Indeed, it has gotten to the point that there is rarely a day that goes by in which I have not read some work of literature besides those related to school work. In fact, …show more content…
I have bilingual and gone to a bilingual school since I was young, meaning I got an early exposure to English, American, Spanish, and Latin American literature all from a young age. Likewise, when I was in high school I took French I and II, AP Spanish Literature, and AP English Literature and Language, all of which allowed me to develop my comprehension of the literary world even further. Thanks to the languages I know, I am very knowledgeable in the usage and meaning of words and can understand works of literature a lot better than the average American. Similarly, the AP courses I took helped me develop the appropriate analyze, research, and writing skills and helped me get a better and more in depth analysis out of every work of literature I can come