My Relationship With Literature

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In highschool I waited for when teachers posted the summer reading list online for students to view. I love reading books because to me you can escape reality and live among the pages with the characters. I had to write a research paper on any writer of my choice in ninth grade and I choose to write a paper on Mark Twain. It was a very challenging paper to tackle as we had to have 25 sources and the paper had to be a minimum of nine pages, but reading his books made it easier to write the paper since it portrayed such enticing stories. After completing the assignment and looking back on the information and achievements I accomplished it opened my eyes to how intriguing literature can be and I fell even more in love with the written word.
In my sophomore year of high school we had to complete an assignment on a work of literature that was adapted into a film. I choose to do my favorite book of all time, Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. The assignment was stretched out over an entire school year which was very helpful since the book was nearly 1000 pages, and the movie nearly 4 hours. Procrastinating on this assignment was nearly impossible because of the time it took to go through both the book and movie and analyze each section. After finishing the book and breaking down the chapters it was quiet shocking to see how different the movie adaptation was from the book. In having the two versions of the story differ it made the analyzes of both quiet different, but it also allowed for a great paper since the differences in the two adaptations could be compared.

I have always loved to read but every time I do a major paper on a work of literature I realize just how much I love escaping reality to feel what the characters feel and walk along side them throughout the story.