Personal Narrative: I M A Good Writer

Sherman Alexie once said “I’m a good writer who may be a great writer one day.” This quote is an excellent explanation about how I feel toward my own writing. Reading and writing has always been a part of school that I have enjoyed since I first learned how to. Usually, I enjoy reading to a further extent than writing; in spite of this, only under certain circumstances, do I enjoy reading. If a teacher were to assign a book to read for a class, I would find it difficult to read and appreciate, because I did not find or choose the book myself. Writing, on the other hand, has never been a favorite of mine; although, I would consider myself to be a fairly strong writer. I would easily choose reading over writing. Reading has been relatively painless for me, I remember always wanting to read when I first learned how, in the same way that teenagers want to drive everywhere when they first receive their license. One series I remember reading was called The Tucket Adventures, a book series by Gary Paulson. It is based around a fourteen-year-old boy who is captured by a tribe of Pawnee Indians. As a result of reading The Tucket Adventures, I was

Reading introduced me to a whole new world of opinions and new ideas that I never would have thought of, and literature has been doing this since humans have been writing. Frederick Douglass once stated that he “… always took a book with me, and by doing one part of my errand quickly, I found time to get a lesson before my return.” That is the exceptional part about literature, everyone can learn how to read and write, unlike other activities, such as Football or Baseball, which takes a certain level of athleticism to play at a competitive level. Since, everyone can learn how to read and write, that means that everyone can have their thoughts and opinions out for the world to see, especially now that social media