Writing Class Analysis

I strongly believe when some people grow up they lose interest in reading books, you can see the many people that don’t like reading in our schools, because most of us are on our phones and reading articles. I mainly read on my phone and I enjoy that more because the articles are short and to the point quicker. Phones have changed on how much I value actual books.

I haven't always been keen on reading as I am today. I can’t really remember the reason for my distaste in literature, but I think it mostly came from me just thinking that reading was too difficult or I was just me being a stubborn six year old not wanting to do it, but none the less I was like this for a lot of my earlier years. I was able to read a small amount of text because my parents teaching me, using Doctor Seuss books like Cat and the Hat and One FIsh Two Fish Red Fish Blue FIsh as learning tools to help me become more fluent. I never really understood reading until my stepmom moved in with us. Since my sister and I were still very young

Today I still don't enjoy reading books, especially not if they have a movie version. I know reading books make you smarter as a reader and they increases your vocabulary. But honestly reading books seems like a big hassle, For me reading is hard to enjoy, that's like pinching me with a needle I would get agitated quickly. I believe it was Gilbert K. Chesterton once said: “There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to

From elementary school to high school the interest of reading didn’t change much. In elementary school the only books I liked to read were the ones with a lot of pictures in it. Trying to read when I was younger was like pulling teeth. I never wanted to do it. When I got to middle school and high school, I had to force myself to read. A couple of books I did enjoy reading were “Night” by Elie Wiesel and “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The reason why I enjoyed reading these books was because both authors put a lot of details in their stories. These stories helped my mind to capture the image of the characters’ lives and what they have experienced.

My principle, Mr. Brown, had the fourth and fifth graders competing to meet their AR goals. The top 5 readers in each grade got to go on special lunches at the end of the nine weeks. I remember telling myself “I’m going on every lunch.”, and that’s just what I did all the way through fifth grade. Everyday he would end the morning announcements with “Reading is power, don’t let anyone take it from you.” This pushed me to read any book no matter how thick it was. Every time I would place either third, fourth and fifth until my last time in fifth grade; I got second. Once in middle school I loved reading still but, we had to start reading books that were picked in class and do assignments on them. To myself I thought “Why can’t I read what I like.” I was just being stubborn due to being able to read independently in elementary, until seventh grade, in which I finally got books that I enjoyed. My two favorites from middle school are The Outsiders, a book about a teen gang, the Greasers, and their beef between a rival group; and Night, a book about the author Elie Wiesel’s experience in the Nazi German concentration camps at the climax of World War II. These two books made me feel the same feeling I felt when I was a young reader, a feeling I hadn’t felt in so long. Every since that time in my life I decided to give any book a chance and I try to read at least one book every couple of

When I was six years old I can remember reading those small books about animals or around Christmas time having pop-up books and loved reading them and as I got older I moved on to Dear Dumb Diaries and Diary Of A Wimpy Kid, those books were my absolute favorite and I always loved reading them. Now that I'm older my reading had changed dramatically, I like reading books that are more based around my age with main characters that I can relate to so it would make me more interested in the book and make me want to read it and understand it and not just reading it just to read and not containing any of the information. I would describe myself as not the strongest reader. When I read things for a history class that I’m not interested in I’m not

I have always enjoyed literature from a very young age. I was that child that you would find in a corner reading multiple books in one night instead of playing, so I was very excited to take this course and I am very glad I did. After taking this class I feel like I’ve grown as a reader and broadened my horizons of the pieces of literature I enjoy.

Growing up at nine years old, struggling to comprehend the concepts of elementary school literature was one of the hardest things I ever had to endure, but prior to this self-aware discovery. I seemed to always be the worst kid in class academically and behaviorally. I would constantly act out trying to divert the attention away from my appalling academic performance to something completely different. I’d begin to shout things like, “THIS CLASS SUCKS! WHY ARE WE HERE! CAN YOU EVEN DO YOUR JOB?” I even threw in simple, corny jokes that everyone would understand, that would get everyone laughing, so we could spend less time on the subject at hand. Over the course of a few years, I quickly concluded that English and I would

I can honestly say that I neither like, nor dislike, writing. I have always had a hard time writing a paper it’s hard for me to come up with things to put in them I feel like I may ramble on. I have written a lot of letters just about every day activities to my dad (he was away for a while) I have written poems about feelings, letters to a boyfriend, lyrics to songs, grocery lists, when I was younger I loved writing little notes to my mom and sister and I could go on and on about different things that I wrote. I actually love writing but I don’t like structured writing I rather write a letter about how I feel or a letter to someone than a structured essay. I find it difficult to set it in the right format that the teacher wants. I feel this way because my senior year in high school our English teacher just gave us a rubric and topic and told us to write I was lost and didn’t understand what was being asked of me but this event has taught me I always need to make sure I understand what my teacher expects from me on a writing assignment.

Some kids grow up living in a fairy tail from the latest novel they read. Most kids apply everything from their day to their favorite books, characters, and stories. They get lost in the fascination of the story line and can not wait to turn the page to see what happens next. Then, there are kids like me. Kids that never once found reading a book to be fun, entertaining, or a good use of their time. Growing up I have realized the importance of books and what they have to offer, but that has not changed my tolerance on reading. I was never that child to make reading a hobby, and quite frankly I have always just hated it. Although reading is nothing near entertainment for me, I have done it through life, and do have opinions on certain books

When I was younger I use to read all the time, I genuinely enjoyed reading, but that was when I had time to read books. As I grew older I really don’t have as much time to do anything, to take my time and read at my pace to enjoy what the author is conveying. I use to read tons of books to the point where I got recognition on reading. I use to love going to the library to get books whether it was for school or for my personal pleasure. Times have changed.

If you don’t read that's okay, everyone has their own time when they feel the need to read, now if you’re choosing not to read because you frankly just find reading books to be boring, then you’re wrong. There is no such thing as boring where you just need to find the type of book you want, weather its comics, or big history books, everybody has their own choice, because regardless of what you read, you still learn and gather information that not only boosts up your intelligence but at the same time you’re having fun doing

I never really had a chance to connect with books and reading on a very personal level as a child. They always seemed impractical to me: mainly fiction books. Don’t get me wrong or anything. I kind of got the idea of why students were made to read fiction books in school: to help increase empathy, vocabulary, and imagination, but I never really go into it. My family never enforced reading for me as strictly as other kids parents did for them, but emphasized the concrete skills. This inevitably led me to be mainly interested in the hard skills verse the more abstract soft skills. Out of this reasoning, I decided not to read books of the type throughout elementary, middle, and high school. I didn’t hate them or anything. I just didn’t have them in my tunnel vision. So guess I should of read more non-fiction then? Which, I did. But not as much as you would have thought I should have. My reasoning around this was that the schools would teach me those hard skills I crave so dearly. Plus, I would have more free time on my hands to find a more passive form of entertainment such as TV, movies, and thinking. Of the three I mainly enjoyed, the thinking activity where I would just sit down, be it on the bus, car, or bed and think about the scientific theories behind everything, which I was always wrong about. But it was the thoughts that counted: the expansion of the mind that really caught my attention. So in order to give you the full

So, literature. To be honest, I really hate literature. Like right now, I hate that I’m writing an essay about the very thing that I hate. It makes no sense, but it’s probably going to be worth a lot of points, so I guess I should suck it up and do it. Anyways, I didn’t used to hate literature. In fact, I used to love it and enjoy doing it. However, that was when I was in 2nd grade so it’s been a while to say the least. In 2nd grade I was one of those kids who was like the bookworm, if people want to call it that. I didn’t really read varieties of books though, it was only just one series that I stretched out for the whole year. One might have guessed, but just in case they didn’t, I was one of those Harry Potter nerds. Who can blame me

I never really had a chance to connect with books and reading on a very personal level as a child. They always seemed impractical to me: mainly fiction books. Don’t get me wrong or anything. I kind of got the idea of why students were made to read fiction books in school: to help increase empathy, vocabulary, and imagination, but I never really got into it. My family never enforced reading for me as strictly as other kids parents did for them, but emphasized the concrete skills. This inevitably led me to be mainly interested in the hard skills verse the more abstract soft skills. Out of this reasoning, I decided not to read books of the type throughout elementary, middle, and high school. I didn’t hate them or anything. I just didn’t have them in my tunnel vision.