My Love For Reading And Writing

As a person who enjoys the subject of English, I feel safe to say that I do have a love for reading and writing. Reading helps me escape to another world, and developing a well-written essay is very satisfying. My favorite genres are historical/science fiction, and I’m a fan of dystopian novels. Oddly enough, the wretched societies and brutal experiences within these books cause me to look at life with a better perspective, and it opens my eyes as to of what could be, and what is. My strengths as a reader include my ability to decipher a piece of text, and read quickly enough to complete a book within a couple of days. Contrarily, I find it very difficult to get myself through books which I may not feel a connection with, and that tends to

“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.” -Kofi Annan. Literacy in my family tree will never be brought back to scholars or philosophers infact Many in my family have not seeked and further education and many have not even finished high school.my love for literacy has been placed into my heart by my sister.As a child my sister has always handed me book after book each one with a smile on her face.

The first time I realized I enjoyed writing was when I read the book Coach Carter by Jasmine Jones. I know it sounds a little strange that I found out I enjoyed writing through reading, but in my mind it all makes sense. Reading allows individuals to see into other peoples lives and envision what they are living. Although I enjoy writing it was not something I was naturally very good at. However, as of right now I plan on trying my hardest to take the rules I have learned over time to apply to my writing to help improve it, along with any corrective criticism I can get. Something I find comfort in though is the idea that everybody has to start somewhere, and no matter where you start there is room for improvement and no one is perfect.

Throughout my life, I have always been an avid reader and a lazy writer. Ever since I discovered comic books in my younger years, I have passionately engaged myself in any books I can find. I read through books quickly and I try to delve deeper by going past the surface of the writing. I generally like to read either realistic or science fiction and when I read something that interests me, I like to read for hours without stopping and seldom do I like to take breaks while reading. In the past year, I have tried to read harder books and more non-fiction to become a stronger reader. As a writer, I often feel unmotivated due to my lack of interest in the topic. My attention span while writing is quite short so I generally like to take my time when completing essays.

I wanna start this essay by first defining what is reading and writing is ,everyone could agree that reading is a process where the student get meanings from everything that they see around.Writing is basically your free choice of words.I was in Preschool when i first realize that i love reading and writing.I remember my mother walking me to my class and me not knowing that i would be walking out with knowledge to read and write.My Preschool teacher named was Ms.Newman and she was a very artistic teacher and she would express herself through her clothes.she would have different colorful words on her walls that each letter in the alphabet had a picture to represent it.she would wear

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” Author George R.R. Martin wrote this quote in his book A Dance with Dragons, which is included in the popular series A Song of Ice and Fire that inspire the “Game of Thrones” television show. To me, this quote speaks the truth of reading for me and countless others. I have always be an avid reader for along as I can remember, and I can leave the house without a book. However, my love of books need to start somewhere and with development in the love people can always find hardship. Now let me tell you about my love story with books.

I like to describe myself as a bubbly person; I am definitely a glass half full kind of girl; I love sunny days, the color pink, and peppy songs. At the same time I love pretty much anything girly, working with kids, history, reading, animals, hair, makeup, and talking about the Bible. My family has always discussed everything, and I guess that's where my love of discussing things comes from. I am the oldest of five kids and have two brothers, and two sisters. Mckinley is 15, Savanna is 13, Lincoln is 11, and Abel is 4. I have been homeschooled my entire life and enjoy a close relationship with my siblings and parents. My Dad is a state farm agent, but he spends his extra time studying hebrew, and my Mom is a full time homeschool mom and wife/super woman extraordinaire. We live in Davenport, Iowa right on the mississippi river.

I have always read ever since I was a little kid. As I got older reading had a minimum impact on my life. I didn’t have much time to read. Other activities got in the way of me reading. At that time I would only read if I had too, never for fun.

When I was a little girl I loved to write, because my father would give me silly little writing prompts and I would write short paragraphs of made up scenarios. My father really encouraged my writing at an early age, but as I grew older I realized that I struggled with it a lot. I can remember my very first personal journal. The content I would write was so underdeveloped, because I was so young, but I didn’t care at the time. As I grew older, I became fond of roleplaying online on websites or in video games such as World of Warcraft. I continued to roleplay through high school at the same time trying to do the school work my teachers were giving me. My teachers knew I was struggling and didn’t take much interest in helping me. When I first started college, my skills were not up to par. Some things were good and others not so much, but at the end of the day everything that has happened to me has made me the writer I am today.

Growing up I always loved writing. I can remember in elementary school, coming home to write some sort of poetry in my journal. Looking back now, I can laugh at the mistakes I made, or how silly something sounded. As any young child, though, I felt super proud of my work. I loved sharing it with people, but mostly, I loved sharing it with my mom. She would hang my work up on the fridge and show everyone. Some pages I just wanted to share with her and even then, she would still tell me her favorite parts. She loved reading my writing and I loved sharing it with her. My mom encouraging me to write as freely as I want directly influenced my writing today.

I live and breathe music. Music is the reason that I wake each morning; it is the reason I go to school every day, and it is what I spend all of my free time doing. Since the seventh grade, music has been my passion. Because I was raised by parents who introduced me to the joy of music at a young age, music has always offered me great comfort like Blue Box mac and cheese. From an early age I was exposed to many genres of music from classical, to pop, to Jazz, and many others. Since I was an infant, my father shared his love of Mozart, Neil Diamond, and Billie Holiday. In addition to listening to music, I learned to play various instruments over the years beginning when I was four years old when I played “Mary Had a Little Lamb” on the largest pipe organ in Nevada. Unless you count the pots and pans drum set from our kitchen, this was my first experience playing a musical instrument.

Felsenfeld did not come from a musical background, but took piano classes, worked at bars and orchestras and fell in love with music, especially Beethoven which had a “drug like effect on him” (p. 642) Felsenfeld only learned about Beethoven by accident when a friend “played something wild” for him (p. 641), but Felsenfeld wanted the music to keep going, to never end. Felsenfeld showed his love for music while composing in Opera, chamber music, and orchestral music. Felsenfeld followed his heart and passion and is an amazing writer/ composer.

I am a musician. My journey through the weeds of musical establishment and excellence was filled with success and failures galore; how you describe me is up to you.

Reading and writing are two of the first things we learn when were in a school and that when I realized that I and reading/writing have a long relationship. I remember my mother walking me to my class and me not knowing that I would be walking out with knowledge to read and write. My Preschool teacher named was Ms. Newman and she was a very artistic teacher and would often express herself through her clothes, she would have different colorful words on her walls that each letter in the alphabet had a picture to represent it. She would wear different color sweaters that would have a bunch words on them and she would tell a bunch of short stories and it really had me excited to read. I instantly wanted to read anything I put my hand on! Often, I would read the cartoons, comics in the newspaper every Sunday and I felt so smart reading it.In class, We would spilt into groups and talk about how we felt about the story, Ms. Newman would have read to us. As the year progressed, we would cut out letters, magazines, and newspapers etc. and put them in our journal. This is how my love for reading and writing all begin.

Throughout most of my life I have had one consistent goal; to become a veterinarian. I have had a continuous and solid passion for animals in all respects. This passion and love has fueled my in striving to achieve the dreams I have for myself after high school. The beginning of this story begins long before high school though.