{"id":13684,"date":"2018-04-13T15:33:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T19:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=13684"},"modified":"2020-08-28T12:34:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T16:34:15","slug":"reading-escape-learning-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/reading-escape-learning-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Is An Escape And Learning Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I would be lying if I said I have loved to read my entire life. I actually did not enjoy reading until middle school. I remember it clearly. \u00a0I was sitting at a scratched-up desk in my seventh-grade classroom when I fell in love with reading. I realized that by reading I could leave my world and disconnect for a little while. For a teenager who was constantly stressed and doubting everything, it felt like I had just found a lifeline. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reading has so many wonderful outcomes, but being able to have an escape was what drew me in. Books transported me to worlds that didn\u2019t exist but felt just as real. One of the first books that did this was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/city-of-bones-cassandra-clare\/1100329400\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">City of Bones <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from Cassandra Clare\u2019s series <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mortal Instruments. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her series gave me somewhere to go to when I found myself in a classroom where a teacher failed to teach, a family friend\u2019s home when I didn\u2019t speak to anyone or my bedroom when my thoughts were so loud I couldn\u2019t hear any of them. This series was one of the many that helped me leave behind my fears and concentrate on the wonderful adventures of other characters who I grew to admire. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This escape kept me picking up books for years. Until I found myself picking up a memoir and I found out reading does so much more than offer a temporary escape.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The memoir was <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Night<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor. I have always found the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/holocaust-education-week-brings-authors\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Holocaust<\/span><\/a> a topic I liked to read about in history class. I believe it\u2019s because I find it hard to comprehend why anyone would do such horrible things. \u00a0I also believe it\u2019s important to remind ourselves that history is not fiction. I didn\u2019t think twice about picking up the book. There\u2019s something different about reading this information from a book with a first-person point of view than through a textbook<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it offers so much more insight than a cold and distant textbook ever could. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What students read in class is warped and doesn\u2019t show the overall picture, which is upsetting. When you read about how a young boy let his dying father\u2019s cries for him go unanswered because he was afraid of the soldiers, it\u2019s hard to not shake with emotion. These are the books that offer the closest thing to experiencing the real thing. It offers emotions that a textbook can\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reading is a wonderful thing. I only mentioned a few of it\u2019s pros, but reading has so much more to offer. The knowledge alone that one can gain from reading is reason enough to do it. I\u2019m not saying one should go and read a book a day. I believe that if people gave reading \u00a0a chance, they\u2019d learn to appreciate the wonderful things it has to offer.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would be lying if I said I have loved to read my entire life. I actually did not enjoy reading until middle school. I remember it clearly. \u00a0I was sitting at a scratched-up desk in my seventh-grade classroom when I fell in love with reading. 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