The Importance Of Reading And Brain Development

As Mem Fox said, “Reading aloud and talking about what we’re reading sharpens children's Brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly.” (Mem Fox) What Mem Fox said relates a lot with the situation that we are in today; since nowadays people are not reading anymore and due to the lack of reading people are not as capable to “concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly. ( Mem Fox) Currently in the 21st century “half of adults read more than 5 books and half read fewer.Neither number is significantly different from previous years.” (Pew research) Books improve with brain development, they

Books develop the brains knowledge aspect as seen in multiple articles such as in “Learning to Read and Write” by Frederick Douglass. In this article Frederick is going through the adversity of being a slave and being unable to be taught how to read or how to write. Frederick uses metaphors and irony to show that reading helped brain development when he says “give me that more valuable bread of knowledge… Every opportunity I got, I used to read… I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing… I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity.” ( Douglass 2) This proves the point that in the case of Frederick learning to read had given him more knowledge and eventually he understood how cruel slavery was. This shows how reading put Frederick in a better place than most slaves and this made him eventually move up in the social leader. A similar situation is shown in “Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie since we see that reading helped with brain development by giving them knowledge and eventually changing their lives. Sherman proves this point when he says “I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life… This knowledge delighted me.” ( Alexie 2-3) This proves that books gabe Sherman knowledge which eventually made him move up social due to this knowledge he achieved thanks to the stimulus that reading provided

Reading makes the reader empathize with the characters in the books and understand their point of view better which helps the brain develop social skills. This is shown in multiple articles such as “Learning to Read and Write” by Frederick Douglass; in this article Frederick through reading “ The Columbian Orator” he developed his brain to have better social skills. This is shown when he tells that “Every opportunity I got, I used to read this book. Among much of other interesting matter, I found in it a dialogue between a master and his slave. The slave was represented as having run away from his master three times … I read them over and over again with unabated interest. They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul… I gained from the dialogue.” ( Douglass 2) This proves how reading made Frederick empathize with the slave in the book and it gave them social skills such as dialogue on important matter, so reading gave him the ability to be able to speak about important matters. Another article that shows this again is “Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie in his article he talks about how reading gave him social skills and knowledge and with that eventually he became a writer. This is shown when he says “I was smart. I was arrogant. I was luck. I read books late into the nights … These days, I write novels, short stories and poems. I visit schools and teach creative