Learning to read is a great blessing. With every word a toddler figures out how to read expands his vocabulary and helps him to understand more. The first books of his education are simple books with simple words and meanings. As he grows up, the books and words get harder, and more complicated. With the Level of intensity growing, their minds are grow along with them. When he reaches his senior year, there are many books places before him to read for a grade. At first he may not want to, but as the year progresses, he learns to enjoy them. In McGee’s period one 1010 honors English class, there were many different books the class had to read, every student has their favorites. Out of all the selections, I was asked to choose three texts that were important and that I enjoyed. The three books that were most enjoyable to me were Greek and Roman Mythology, The Republic, and The Inferno.
Throughout my senior year, one of the books that was intriguing was Greek and Roman Mythology. Reading about the myths and legends of the ancient Greeks and Romans filled a growing interest since younger years. It was always interesting to learn of the history of their time period. Learning of
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Reading a book on Hell usually isn’t a student’s first pick, however, it wasn’t the idea of hell that was intriguing to me it was all the connections. As people read The Inferno, they read of all these sins and the punishments to go along with them. Reading The Inferno, one must read in between the lines, and read it in detail to get all the different ties. Dante was just exiled and wrote his book of Hell. In there he says the worst sins is to betray someone, which is what he saw was done to him. The book also allows one to compare the hell they believe in to the hell that was described to them in the reading. It also allows them to re-evaluate their lives, especially when the sins like gluttony are in the