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some people hear this word and think uh
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boring nope i am not interested
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some people hear this word and think ah
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i'm going to cozy up with a book and
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some people hear this word and think
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school and assign reading and summer
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reading and papers and essays and
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classes and teachers and
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but when i hear this word i think of the
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thing i look forward to
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the most throughout my entire day i
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can't tell you the amount of times i've
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super groggy because i was up way too
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late the night before
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saying just one more chapter and you'll
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go to bed just one more chapter and
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just one more chapter yeah
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i say that about five times a night but
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i don't just like reading because of the
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i love reading because of the things it
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in the book to kill a mockingbird
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atticus finch told scout
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you never really understand a person
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until you consider things from his or
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and so you climb into their skin and
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reading can help you practice this
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reading has allowed me to consider
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things from other people's point of view
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all the time catherine stockett's novel
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is one of the most powerful books i've
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but there's this gut-wrenching moment in
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the book that affected me deeply
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abeleen the black house made to the
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leifold family is told by her employers
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that she is not allowed to use the
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restroom inside the home
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instead she was forced to use the
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restroom constructed in the garage for
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the help hence the title adeline was sad
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angry disappointed and alone because i
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felt so deeply for this character
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it felt like i just watched one of the
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most important people in my life being
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told that she was less than
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and it broke my heart these stories are
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so important because it allows us to
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walk through the character's journey
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it gives us perspective it helps us
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and about people's emotions and not just
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facts about their life
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by reading you develop empathy in a
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deeper understanding of the world around
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my aunt has four children two of white
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skin and two of brown skin
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i love my cousins equally and the color
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of their skin white or brown has never
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affected that but by reading the help
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and learning about abilene's journey it
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pushed me to think about the challenges
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that my cousins may face
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just because of the color of their skin
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in the book a cuban girl's guide to t
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and tomorrow i learned
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so much about cuba's culture and what's
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is it's about a girl who lives in
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florida with cuban parents
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who's visiting in london and even as
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she's walking on the old cobblestone
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streets in the rain next to big ben
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i still learned so much about cuba's
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culture through her memories
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her likes and her love for cooking
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traditional cuban food
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reading can allow you to look at things
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from other people's point of view
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and learn about their cultures than say
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a web search could do we all want to
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experience new things
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right some may do this by reaching out
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to the people around you
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joining clubs or doing community service
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but not only do you get to experience
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but you are almost guaranteed a better
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by reading you're guaranteed better
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better vocabulary better and better
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an article from the elite educational
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institute states that people who read
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are more likely to have are more likely
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better classroom grades and get better
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reading opens up more doors for you in
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the future a quote from albert einstein
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that if you want your children to be
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intelligent read them fairy tales
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if you want your children to be more
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intelligent read them fairy tales
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even one of the smartest minds in the
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history of our world agrees that not
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only is reading fun and enjoyable
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but it's educational and promotes
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learning beaches prior is the heroine of
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the divergent trilogy
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and pretty early on in the books we
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realize that she is an introvert
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but throughout the series she made
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lifelong friends and learned more about
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than by jumping into a new opportunity
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and not caring what other what her
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family or others thought about her
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as an introvert i was inspired by
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beatrice's courage and spunk to throw
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away what was comfortable
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to her and try something new i thought
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to myself if a fictional character
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character could do this and learn more
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then why couldn't i do the same i formed
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tried new extracurricular activities
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like speaking in front of a camera
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i learned more about myself than i ever
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i have read something of sixty thousand
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pages in the span of two years
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well sixty one thousand one hundred
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eighty seven if you count
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two am last night that means a lot of my
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time is spent in the library
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the kind ladies who work there are my
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my daily trip to the library is greeted
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we just read a book that you would love
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by building these relationships with the
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librarians they introduced me with a
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girl my age who reads just as much as me
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and has become a very close friend
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and we all want new friends right and
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you don't have to read 61 000 pages to
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do that though it might help
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not only do you make more friends but
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you can soar over buildings like agatha
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from the school of evil
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or fight for your life in arena with
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katniss everdeen or learn who you are
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like sophrania from the etiquette and
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or live against all odds like anastasia
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reading can allow you to have so much
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fun and you can do all these things by
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just turning the pages of a book
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reading gets you out of the confines of
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your life and helps you live
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no matter what holds you back whether it
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or lack of access reading opens up the
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world and puts it at your fingertips
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it's like dreaming but you get to pick
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the dream even if you're confined to a
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you can still soar over buildings with
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harry potter through jk rowling's words
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or even if you haven't found love you
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can fall in love through prince maxson
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and america's singer's story in the
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or even if you can't be the person you
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want to be because society deems it so
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you can be that person by just reading
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reading has taught me many things about
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my life and i don't think i'd be the
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person i am today if i wasn't an avid
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so i encourage you that though you may
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think reading is boring
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give it a try i mean if it helps you at
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half as much as it helps me i know you
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my point is though reading may be forced
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it can also be fun and enjoyable and i
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find the only way you can soar over
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skies fight for your life or learn who
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is by reading thank you
