I suppose you want me to tell you about my writing, it is hard to do that without explaining my love of reading first. I have always been fascinated by books; the characters they created and the places they imagined. I loved books before I was old enough to understand the written word. At night I would climb from my bed and pull them off the shelf one by one my eyes devouring their pages, my mother would find me asleep under a pile of them in the morning. When I started school and could decipher the words on the pages I was even more entranced. The book’s words and my imagination would pair to sweep me away into stories where I could almost imagine that I was there with them. I would cry for my favorite character’s losses and celebrate in their triumphs. Books were as Stephen King once said “a portable kind of magic.” …show more content…
I distinctly remember creating a fanciful story including battling a giant beetle in response to my fourth grade writing test prompt. My fascination with the written word stopped when creative writing gave away to the introduction of Academic Writing. I attempted to infuse the beauty of words into this new challenge but was constantly scolded by sharp red pen markings. My teachers berated my pitiful grammar and lack of academic tone. My teachers could not see past the thorny mess of comma splices and misspellings to read the content I tried to express. Writing became a chore, English was my favorite subject but the introduction of writing academic papers slowly choked all that I loved out of the
Literature has long been an important part of human life. We express our feelings with ink and paper; we spill out our souls on dried wood pulp. Writing has been a form of release and enjoyment since the beginning of written language. You can tell a story, make yourself a hero. You can live out all your fantasies!
Throughout my childhood, I had a very strong dislike for writing and reading. I found it boring and unexciting. As I progressed through elementary school, each writing assignment always came back with a mediocre to poor grade and to be honest, I didn’t really care because I disliked writing so much, so it meant nothing to me. Even throughout middle school, I didn’t care. Because all grades in elementary and middle school didn’t count towards anything, so I just didn’t put in the effort. I got bored so easily when completing a writing prompt for the state standardized testing exam called CSAP, later known as TCAP, then progressing to become PARCC. Writing just never appealed to me.
I consider myself a very dedicated person, because even though I didn’t like writing, I did well at it by fighting against whatever was stopping me from liking it. As time passed I conceived that reading and writing is a combination of important tools that are essential for life, something that everyone needs to be successful. Once I realized how important reading and writing was, I started to feel a passion for writing poems, songs and stories.
Writing does not only affect the mind of the writer, but it also has an effect on the reader too. When an action occurs in a story, the motor cortex in the reader’s brain will become active. If the story contains details that explain a feeling, our sensory response will become active. As if the reader were actually the character in the story (“How
Ever since I was a child, I've never liked reading. Every time I was told to read, I would just sleep or do something else instead. In "A Love Affair with Books" by Bernadete Piassa tells a story about her passion for reading books. Piassa demonstrates how reading books has influenced her life. Reading her story has given me a different perspective on books. It has showed me that not only are they words written on paper, they are also feelings and expressions.
I watch television and go to movies frequently. I occasionally read books. Reasonably, engaging in visual entertainment and reading other authors’ work aid in my writing style. The shows I watch and the books I read are usually about topics I am interested in or passionate about. Specifically, the movie Pleasanteville, the television show Felicity, and two books A Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger and A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean help me to become a better writer.
As I reflect it becomes clear to me that I enjoyed writing my junior year in high school. My English teacher Mr. Duckworth was a one of a kind teacher. His classroom was a normal classroom setting with the desk all line up behind one another. All of his students would face the white erase board that was located in the front of the room. He would typically sit at his desk leaning back in his chair giving us instructions on what was to be done in the class. As we sit in the class, all I can hear are my classmates laughing and joking around as he spoke. he would already have an essay topic on the board that was to the right of us that he could easily see from his desk. This was an everyday routine for all of his classes. As we begin to write, I noticed how different classmates of mine would get up to ask for help with their essay. The students who never asked for help usually would end up with a lot of red markings on their essays.
My affinity for writing novels started when I was a child and tried to scribble out what was essentially- extremely poorly-written Harry Potter fanfiction. Then my writing progressed in elementary school, where I wrote a poem about a chair and was praised
History has always been one of my passions. Entering high school, my goal was to get a 5 on one of the AP tests for history. When the opportunity came, I took my first AP class, AP European History, and I studied away.
I used to have to take these tests about all the books I would read in school and I would always ace them all. I knew that reading was something I liked because I was always very intrigued by it. Also in middle school I found my true writing voice. I remember taking a creative writing class in six grade and I was always the student who wrote more than what was expected for my writing assignments. I would write stories about things such as my friends and the experiences that I had in school. Sometimes I would even write my own plays and in my plays the characters would be people in family and people from school. I would always try to make the plot super interesting in my plays. One time I wrote a play about my brothers and me traveling to space and finding aliens. Overall, I really fell in love with literacy throughout my middle school years because I was able to read books more at an advance level and I also was able to write more intense stories. Literacy has been a positive influence in my life all throughout my school
At this very moment in my life, I am not really as big on literacy as I was in my younger years. I am not a part of a book club, I do not write letters to anybody, and I don’t listen to books on tape. Although I don’t do some of the things that I used to do in my younger years, that doesn’t mean that I don’t still love literacy. I still really do love reading, but I don’t read for fun like I did throughout school. I don’t read or write as much as I did in the past years because of how busy my life has gotten.
“Class,” I announced, “today I will teach you a simpler method to find the greatest common factor and the least common multiple of a set of numbers.” In fifth grade, my teacher asked if anyone had any other methods to find the greatest common factor of two numbers. I volunteered, and soon the entire class, and teacher, was using my method to solve problems. Teaching my class as a fifth grader inspired me to teach others how important math and science is. These days, I enjoy helping my friends with their math homework, knowing that I am helping them understand the concept and improve their grades.
My passion for the fascinating wolrd of science literally can not be put into words. Since receiving my first home science kit at five years of age the way things work and why has always been at the forefront of my mind. During my early years I would find great delight in examining anything I could fit under the lens of my telescope. I will never forget my first look at the intricate detail of a human hair.
Humor is an essential part of my daily life. Causing someone to laugh and feel amused varies from person to person. What I find funny may not be funny to others. My sense of humor may vary, from watching comedy movies, to late night comedy talk shows. What I find mostly funny are Internet memes or funny Internet videos, because they have both been modified into distinct funny phrases or modified into funny videos that cause humor and they are always new ones being created, you can also share them to give someone else laughter. My sense of humor comes from my dad, growing up we would watch Spanish comedy on television together, though not all humor can be funny, because I believe there is a line that should not be crossed when using humor.
When I was much younger, There was a lot that I did not understand. But as a child that is to be expected. At this point in life, Your mind is essentially a blank canvas waiting to be splashed with a multitude of colors, these colors representing this variety of all this undiscovered knowledge which had been foreign to me. Growing up, reading was not associated with anything pleasurable. It was thought of more as a chore to me, it is what’s needed to gain this understanding and I thought that if I did this, it would eventually make me and intellectual. So I had not really thought of it in any other way. I guess to could say in that aspect that is where the protagonist in “ Hunger of Memory” and I are similar. He read for conceptual completion but not for a general understanding. I did not