"I have some advice. I may sound crazy, but here goes.....
At some point, you're going to have to read Shakespeare, Dickens, Hemingway or Twain. And while you're defining vocabulary words, filling in worksheets and writing essays about various symbolic interpretations, you might be forgetting something. That is to read for the pleasure of it! That's right - I said read to enjoy classic literature. All you really might care about is that upcoming test, but these works were written to entertain. The characters want you to join them - they want you to laugh with them and cry with them. They want you to use the words on the page as a portal to enter their three-dimensional world and be there next to them throughout their journeys. Don't let you analysis crush the magic of literature or your love of reading."
Thoughts by Jeanelle W.
age 15
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