What books should do

When in doubt this is a class about language, but to say that we have an understand of our language is something that can never be true. For with language we create a place as real as London in any time period, or as fictional as middle earth, and Narnia. Books create and inspire. That is why in the end reading is such a great thing. It leads to those who are willing to learn and look into the future to become more than just a normal person. Even those who just read for fun, have something that people who don’t read have.

What should you read though? Books only in one area of literature or in more than one area. The choice is yours, but to be a well-rounded reader is as good as being a well-rounded person, it just helps those in any way possible and is never a bad thing. Books give us knowledge not just in a way of writing and style but in how to think. They can teach you right from wrong and these books in our great world can teach us about the past and maybe something’s about what the future may hold.

The real point is that what you read should bring you joy, it should entertain you as much as add to the knowledge you have. Books when reading then should make you think question your outlook on life and push you to new heights. These dreams that the author put out for you are yours for the taking if you just can crack open that cover of a book, and then begin to read it.

So in the end what you must start to do is read. Whether you have read books and stopped to do to other things, or have never quite liked read. There is a book out there for every person. It will speak to you in ways that no other book has for that writer will have written it for an audience that is you. Now they won’t know that but a book will change your life. I know it; it has been seen and done. It is that book that a person can quote by heart just because when they read it, it fit into their life so completely it became an addicting book.

For me that book was “the Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett. In this book, the main character Mary is a spoiled brat and when she moves to England you read about how a garden, brings on a transformation from a little girl who is often sick and the most unpleasant person to be around to a real child who laughs and plays. This transformation is also brought on to the child who lived at the house before Mary got there. His name is Collin and he is in his mind a cripple, which because of the garden he over comes.

I loved this book, because I like to garden also, and so when I read this book. It moved me, as I read about the healing and change brought on by only a garden.