What English Means To Me

Wilner Zabala 

English 101

     

I've never really had a love for writing or even a desire for it. I always looked at it as an essential tool in life that will be needed through the entirety of someone's life. My first exposure to real writing, such as essays, stories, and rhetorical pieces. I didn't have a love for it, I did it to for good grades. the reason for this was because most of the times I found it very hard to concentrate on a reading and then writing and analyze the piece, or sometimes I wouldn't know how to analyze properly or use poor grammar. It was safe to say that I had to pay extra attention to my writing to make sure it was as correct as I could make it. However, my first time actually enjoying writing was when I read a short story named "Sonny's Blues". I enjoyed writing a rhetorical essay for "Sonny's Blues"  because I was able to connect to the character and express the feelings that he was trying to portray. Another time that I really enjoyed writing was when I had to write a long rhetorical essay for a book called "The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao". For the same reason, I enjoyed writing about "Sonny's Blues" is why I enjoyed writing about this book. I was able to connect to the main character and it made me feel as I was a part of the story. That's what makes me enjoy writing, as long as I can make the writing piece itself or the character within it my own or put my creativity into it.

Just as writing, me and reading have never connected at all. I wouldn't say I would choose reading if I had any other option but there have been brief books that I have read and I absolutely loved, from the front to the back. Such books as "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao", "Fences" "Hatchet".I enjoyed these readings because the characters at one point were going through something that I have personally have gone through, so it wasn't like reading a story but reading a reflection of a part of my life. The most memorable impression reading has left on me was that the character aren't fictionalized to the extreme all the time, they are made to be human sometimes to help us understand the reading more.