Reading to me is mostly boring and I don't usually like to read books. There are, however, some books that I read when I was younger that was interesting. The Accelerated Reading in school is what got me to read books, even though I didn't like it so much. I read many books during school for the Accelerated Reading, but never read any at home for fun. For me to read a book and get deeply in to it, it had to be interesting and a type of story that I liked. Most books that I am interested in are adventure and mystery, because I would get into the story and want to find out the solution to everything. I just had to find a book that caught my mind and got me to actually want to read it.
About the time I was started 3rd grade was when I began reading chapter books. My reading level was probably average for the age. I had books at home that I bought and was interested in to read in school. I had a little amount of books because I never read for fun, just for school.
Then around 4th grade I still read some short chapter books but I began to read large books like the Harry Potter series and lots of other books. My most favorite books that I read were series that are adventure and mystery books. I read the first three Harry Potter books and they were the most fantastic and interest books that I read back then. Since those books were so long, I had to read most of them at home.
In 5th grade, I read the 3rd through 5th Harry Potter books. I wasn't one of those ultra fast readers that would read a large book in a couple of days. I took my time and made sure I understood the whole book, mostly for the test we had to take in school. When I was reading books that were boring to me I would read a chapter, maybe, and then get tired of it and take a long time to read the book. Thats why I had to find books that would catch my mind and make me read them.
When the last book of the Harry Potter series (the 7th book) came out I was in 6th grade and so I read it then. That book was and still is my favorite book of all that I have ever read. The Harry Potter series was not the only big series that I read. I read the Dairy of a Wimpy Kid series and a bunch of series that were popular.
Reading all these great books got me to like reading books even though I never read any books for fun. I've only read a couple of books outside of school since the AR ended after 7th grade. Now I could read books if I wanted to but I never do becuase I don't ever want to read for fun. I can read things for school without trouble because I learned to like reading somethings.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Wishes That are Not Accepted
The story A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings was confusing but has a good story to it. the story show people wish for miracles to happen but when its comes true it's not good enough for them or they can't accept them. Normally you wouldn't find a man with wings and not think he isn't an angel. What else would be a man with wings.
In the story, the priest that came and tlaked to the angel said that he wasn't an angel because he didn't know the language of God.That could be true but the priest wouldn't know for sure that angels had to know Latin. The people locked him up with the hens and the children abused him. Everbody treated him as if he was a human. That is like not having respect for the angel and abusing him. They only wanted the angel to do something for themselves and not do anything for him. Thats how people now treat each other which is unfair.
When the angel helped the sick he didn't cure them but he did do strange things to them. Thats when the people gave up on the angel. This is also what people do today, they expect for something good to happen to them and when it doesn't happen to them they give up. How at the end of the story the angel was sitting in a corner and was motionless reminds me of people that have depression because of the way people treat them. People can even treat the nicest people bad by making fun of them.
The story does have very good and important lessons about today's society. When people are having a hard time in their life don't accept it. This is what the story is all about.
In the story, the priest that came and tlaked to the angel said that he wasn't an angel because he didn't know the language of God.That could be true but the priest wouldn't know for sure that angels had to know Latin. The people locked him up with the hens and the children abused him. Everbody treated him as if he was a human. That is like not having respect for the angel and abusing him. They only wanted the angel to do something for themselves and not do anything for him. Thats how people now treat each other which is unfair.
When the angel helped the sick he didn't cure them but he did do strange things to them. Thats when the people gave up on the angel. This is also what people do today, they expect for something good to happen to them and when it doesn't happen to them they give up. How at the end of the story the angel was sitting in a corner and was motionless reminds me of people that have depression because of the way people treat them. People can even treat the nicest people bad by making fun of them.
The story does have very good and important lessons about today's society. When people are having a hard time in their life don't accept it. This is what the story is all about.
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