The Ending That Makes You Want More...
As I was helping my sister study for a certain english teacher's midyear exam, I realized how good the books that we dreaded reading that year really were. I was helping her study the plot line of Lord of the Flies. I remember only reading bits and pieces of the book, and not really enjoying it, but as I read the end of the book last night I found a new appreciation for it. It's just so amazing I re-read that last chapter once to myself, and then once aloud to my sister because it was just so captivating for me.
I spent this past weekend with my extended family up Maine. While we were there we talked about books that we have read, and reccomended new ones to each other. My mom's cousin said that she had been reading all the books she never read in high school ( such as The Great Gatsby, Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations). I laughed when she told me this because, I would never choose to read these books on my own. She said that now she had gotten older she had a better understanding of these books, and found them to be ten times more interesting.
Reading the ending of Lord of the Flies made me understand where she was coming from. I think that I might try to do the same when I get older, because I will be older and more experience, and I could see myself feeling that same appreciation that I felt reading the end of Lord of the Flies, and that she felt reading her old high school books.
Kmart:)
I spent this past weekend with my extended family up Maine. While we were there we talked about books that we have read, and reccomended new ones to each other. My mom's cousin said that she had been reading all the books she never read in high school ( such as The Great Gatsby, Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations). I laughed when she told me this because, I would never choose to read these books on my own. She said that now she had gotten older she had a better understanding of these books, and found them to be ten times more interesting.
Reading the ending of Lord of the Flies made me understand where she was coming from. I think that I might try to do the same when I get older, because I will be older and more experience, and I could see myself feeling that same appreciation that I felt reading the end of Lord of the Flies, and that she felt reading her old high school books.
Kmart:)
posted by sobereyedconclusions at
10:08 AM
2 Comments:
It is great that you are going to further your literary repertoire there is a distinct difference in certain books between not liking them because of the style or not liking them for the subject manner. In the future a book like Crime and Punishment may seem more interesting because you could better grasp the topic and the reading level of such is not as daunting...The other major difference I find is that a book is much different when you are being forced to extrapolate a specific meaning or retain information for an assessment...Though on the reverse side certain books just due to styling are not going to ever be enjoyable...Some people do not enjoy Palahniuk because all his books are highly stylized in terms of the execution of ideas, but I find that enjoyable...On the reverse side I cannot stand Dicken's style and as such find it strange to consider trudging through the monotony which has has previously penned.
--Mr. Cynic
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