My Reading Life Is My Favorite Book

The book I chose to reflect on is The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen. The book focuses on a character named Jessica who was a star runner who suffers a tragic loss of her leg from a car accident. She goes through a journey of struggling and hardship, but fights through it with the help of her track team.

Chapter 13 was about how most writing is political. It was about how writers secretly put their political point of views into their stories. Usually political writing is boring and vague. Some writing is more political than others, but nearly all writing is political on some level.

I would recommend the book, Born to Run to any person that enjoys running, or even just sports in general. To begin, this story is mainly about ultrarunning. If the reader do not have any interest in sports at all this book will not be for them. For example, most of this book dealt with ultra marathons such as the race in Leadville which took around five chapters to explain everything about the race, and the effect of the Tarahumara which could disinterest readers of this book. Similarly, this book was also about the science behind the Tarahumara, and how they can run hundreds of miles without rest.

“Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie first appeared in “The Most Wonderful Books: Writers on Discovering the pleasures of Reading.” Sherman Alexie is a well-known Native American writer that publishes short stories, novels, and poetry. Out of the three narratives, I found myself connect with this story more than the others. Alexie tells us about his childhood as an Indian boy that grew up on the Reservation. His father was a big reader so as a kid he’s always had an interest in books and eventually it became a passion. As he advanced in reading at an early age, peers would have difficulty with the content that he’s already achieved. Other kids would frown upon him because it was out of the ordinary for an Indian to be smart. Children on the Reservation were expected to be unsuccessful, but Alexie refused to let himself fail. Throughout his obstacles in life, he ended up becoming a writer and now, visits the Reservation to make sure children get as much education as possible. Reading saved his life and he believed it could save theirs as well. Sherman Alexie uses multiple techniques throughout his narrative to inform the audience about how he saved his life through literacy by tieing in his personal perspectives.

Almost all writing is political. It can even come in the form of everyday situations

A writer should use politics to help and explain the work, and not revolve the work around the politics. (Foster 116). The novel uses politics as an explanatory mechanism to convey the actual societal problems in the world while using it in the hospital. But political writing can be entertaining when writing about human problems: social and political. (Foster

Nearly all writing contains political elements, because an author usually includes the world around them when writing. Authors will embrace society in their writing by showing the political injustices, such as civil rights, power structures, different classes in the society, and many more. When authors bring in what’s going on around them into their writing, they are most likely bringing in political elements as well.

The book Unbroken is the compelling story of Louis Zamperini and his life that was full of trials and tribulations. In the beginning Louis grew up in Torrance, California and was a troubled kid who was always getting in trouble in every possible way. He was really unmotivated in his early years but developed a lot of street skills growing up in a poor immigrant family. His brother Pete decided that Louis needed some motivation and goals to keep him off the streets so he had Louis do track and field. Louis wasn’t very motivated to do well at track and field until Pete started training him to make him great. Louis quickly began to realize

The book I choose is Unbroken By Lauren Hillenbrand. This book is the life story of Louie Zamperini. Lauren Hillenbrand had wrote a book before and it was about Seabiscuit and When she first interviewed Louis he said “Don’t worry I’ll be easier to talk to than a horse”. Louis Zamperini ran in the 1936 Olympics, The 1936 Olympics were in Germany .He ran the 5000 meter he got 8th place. Though he got 8th place he did have a very fast finish. So fast it caught the attention Adolf hitler. After the olympics Louie became an actor. One day while he was acting he got a letter from the USAAF (United States Army Air Force) in September of 1941 wanting to enlist him for World War II. He earned Commission as Second Lieutenant and was a bombardier. During

Everything that we do requires words. Even when we think we create our memories out of words. One reason why we do not remember stuff when we are young is because we don’t have the words to put the information into to store it. Writing is very important because writing means everything, and if we didn 't have writing, we wouldn 't be able to spread ideas. The local and world news are in writing also so we need to be able to read the information. Also directions on how to use something or directions to go somewhere for transportation are also written in words. It is unimaginable how many roles writing plays in our lifestyles and we don’t even think about it.

The biography Unbroken written by Laura Hillenbrand follows the life of Louis Zamperini, a young Olympic runner. He started as an immature and reckless young boy who found a love for running when his older brother Pete helped him turn his life around and channel all of his anger into the sport. Louie was repeatedly caught misbehaving and was banned from participating in any school sports, until Pete suggested that he was held back a year in order to run track. After placing last in his first race, Louie was humiliated and decided that he would never run again. Pete, however did not take no for an answer and continued to train him every day. Louie began to break record after record and that’s when he set his sights on the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany.

I’m not really involved or extremely interested in politics, I never really have been. When I realized this book was going to be a book about politics I wasn’t too happy. Then I actually read the book and realized that hearing the stories

Sometimes I read something and I would think “hey that makes sense, i like that” but then I would counter myself and tell myself that I don’t believe that. I didn’t know where I stood and that really bothered me. I felt like having a strong set of political ideas was incredibly important when finding who you are, and I had none. I felt

At this point in my life, reading would definitely not make a list of my favorite things to do, but this wasn’t always the case. Some of my youngest memories involve reading, and many of these memories are enjoyable. Every night before bed my mom would read to me, and I remember begging to read just one more before she tucked me in almost every night. This is when my love for reading sparked. Throughout grade school, I continued to read frequently and never found it to be a chore; however, once middle school hit I no longer included reading as a past time or found it pleasurable. Looking back now I realize this was when English class included more forced literature, and school consisted of reading extensive pages in textbooks. Reading

My favorite book is called The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn and it was written by Mark Twain. The book is about a thirteen-year-old boy called Huckleberry Finn, who just became rich from his last adventure with Tom Sawyer (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) and the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson, wanted to take care of Huck and civilize him, but later, Huck sneaks out of the house at night and joins Tom Sawyer's gang. Later in the story, Huck quits the gang because the adventures were illusory and also his dad, Pap, comes to the town and steals Huck from the Widow Douglas. Huck is slightly comfortable with his life free from religion and school, but his father's beatings become too excruciating, so he fakes his death and escapes down the Mississippi, landing on Jackson's island. There, he stumbles across Miss Watson's slave, Jim, who has run away for fear he will be sold down the river. Huck soon learns that men are coming to the island, so he informs Jim that they were gonna leave the island and travel down the Mississippi. From here on out, Huck and Jim experience a number of adventures, they encounter a band of robbers aboard a wrecked steamboat and two Southern "refined" families who are involved in a bloody feud. The only time when Huck and Jim feel that they are truly free is when they are aboard the raft. This freedom and tranquility are soon shattered by the arrival of the duke and the king. They weren't actually a duke or a king, but Huck plays along with