My Love Of Reading Books

“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.

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

Reading and writing have always been apart of me. From childhood to now. It was just something that my parents instilled in me. I knew how to read basic books and write before I even started pre-school. My parents made it a priority for me to read and write growing up, and the more I read, the fonder I was of it. I will read any type of literature, as long as it peaks my interest. I prefer romance and mysteries, but I try to be diverse when it comes to what I read. I want to make sure I get something out of the books I read, whether or not it is learning something knew about the world or myself, or looking at things in a new way.

Reading was one of my favorite activities as a child (and still is). Books took me to other realms and made me experience feelings I did not know boiled inside of me. Checking out books from libraries was one of the few luxuries I had as a child. It made me happy to read, and when I discovered writing, it made me even happier to write. As I grew, I learned that someone else’s words were captivating and moving me. Books became more than words on a page. They became someone’s thoughts and ideas, someone’s passion that were translated into spellbinding stories. There was one book in particular that had engraved the value of writing in my mind. It was a story about a boy who lived and his name was Harry Potter. After being forced to read the first installment of the Harry Potter series in third grade, I was oozing with wonder and astonishment at what JK Rowling had made me feel.

I love the fact that I belong to two different cultures, Mexican and American, and I enjoy reading books. The thought that these two completely different loves of mine would conflict with one another never crossed my mind, however they did. My beautiful Hispanic culture taught me how to say one word in two different languages, but it also made it difficult for me to pronounce certain words correctly or fully comprehend the reading. As a result, this confliction between culture and reading led me to despise both. After some time, I learned how to make these two important interests that I have work together, which not only restored my love for them but also led to me becoming a better reader and writer.

Piles of books were being displayed on the front lawn and being sold for ten cents for anyone at the garage sale. At the age of nine instead of running towards the dolls, I ran to the books. While my mother spent time looking around, I rummaged through the books to find any book that peaked my interested. From that moment and on, my love for books grew. Many of my fondest memories is going to garage sales or even if my parents wanted to spoil me, a book store. During my middle school years, I began writing fantasy romance short stories in my journals. Once my parents can afford a desktop, I had pages of pages of these stories. My relationship with writing has always been there for me to explore all the ideas of a dystopian world. It was an outlet for me for a very long time and also if I did not like the ending to one of the books I read, I would rewrite it to alter it to my liking. Throughout my high school career, I have taken honor classes and enjoyed the tasks that were given to me. Literature was not only a subject that was mandatory and dull but a way to challenge my perspective. Also to learn not only different worlds that were created from the stories but to understand those that wrote it.

My whole life I have had a strong passion for literature and animals. As soon as I learned how to read on my own, I would spend hours upon hours in my room immersed in books. My first dream job was to be a veterinarian. Growing up I would always find stray cats and dogs in the neighborhood and bring them home where they would become my pets. My love for animals has not subsided in my years but has grown exponentially.

Music is the reason I wake up each morning; it is the reason I go to school each day; it is what I spend all of my free time doing. Since my seventh grade, music has been my passion. My parents introduced me to the joy of music at a very young age, so music has always offered me the same everyday comforts as Blue Box mac and cheese. I have been exposed to many genres of music from Classical, to Pop, to Jazz, and many others.

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.

Reading is an essential part of life and is the cornerstone of learning. Without it, you wouldn't be anything in life. Reading is one of the most valued commodities on earth. However, most people don't value reading as much as others do. When I was younger, reading was something that I valued, but the older I got the less I valued it.

Imagine having the power to go anywhere at any time and any place. To be able to see the world through anybody’s perspective and experience the unimaginable. That’s what I thought reading was like. In one second I could be sitting in my living room and in the next I would be in the magical world of Harry Potter. I absolutely loved reading. I would bring a book everywhere I went whether it be on a vacation or a quick trip to the grocery store. Occasionally, I would write stories or in my journal, but writing simply never compared to my passion for reading.

Growing up reading and writing has always been a strength for me. I loved to read and I have always been intrigued by writing poems, short stories, and even my own songs. I remember being the only one in my neighborhood inside because I wanted to read instead of playing outside all day. Reading has opened my mind and imagination to see things in a more creative light. Regardless of your situation in life, reading can give you an escape from the realities we face every day. I remember coming home from having a bad day and opening a book; I would forget everything else around me. It was like I was drowned in another world when I was reading, that’s how real it felt to me. When I got in my teenage years I started to read less. This was detrimental for me because my love for reading had many positive impacts on me. Reading gave me a reason to teach others, kept me out of trouble, and gave me a special meaning to my life.

“Mom, why is the sky blue?” Questions have overtaken my life from the time I was a toddler. My younger days would start out with an overwhelming amount of questions for my poor parents. Quite often, they would have to answer with the iconic, “that’s just how it is” in order to stop my ever flowing narrative of curiosity. Like most, my childhood was filled with a natural interest in the world and how it worked. My yearning to know all not only shined through my juvenile character, but also in the amount of interest in school that I began to take part in.

I wanna start this essay by first define 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 mom walking to my class and me not knowing that i would be walking out with knowledge to read and write.My Preschool teacher Ms.Newman was a artistic teacher and she would express herself through her clothes.she would have colorful words on her walls that each letter in the alphabet had a picture to represent it.she would wear different colors sweaters that would have a bunch words on them and she would read to us as a class and it had me really 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 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.