Warriors Don T Cry And The Autobiography Analysis

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I don’t like to read, I only like to read books that I have to read if its work related, or for school. Growing up as a child my family did not read to. When I become older I had to do a lot of reading on my own. Like reading magazines, books, and the newspaper to be informative about things that I needed to know to be educated about in life. I don’t have any children at this moment but I hope to have children one day. And to be able to read books to them from a very early age in their lives. In my pass school work I used to skim through texts for answers instead of reading through word-for word. But I found out that wasn’t helpful, because I was just answering question and didn’t know what it was about. So I started to spend time to read, …show more content…
I don’t have a reading experience as a reader, because I don’t read a lot the only books I have read so far in a long time is Warriors Don’t Cry and the Autobiography of Malcolm X books that I had to read last semester for class. I haven’t listen to audiobooks because I didn’t have to but if needs be I would be more than happy to listen to audiobooks. I do feel that reading well was important to my success in high school. Because in life if you’re going to be successful you have to be able to read with understanding. Based on my experience my expectation that reading well will play in the role of my success in college, is that I will be more informative about things that I need to be aware of. So this means I need to read a lot more to be successful in my school work. To my knowledge I don’t have any reading difficulties. I do consider myself as a first generation college student. Because neither of my parents went to college. Since the start of this semester my interest for reading has improved. I have learned that for me to be successful in collage or out of collage I must read. I should read books that’s related to my nature of work and that will give me some interest in reading, rather than just reading books that’s of no

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