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