Harry Potter, Katniss Everdeen, Percy Jackson, Edward Cullen: all of these movie characters were once words on a page. Stories put into books have brought an array of wondrous tales to billions of eyes for longer than anyone could ever remember. These words have proven powerful and created a phenomenon that can never be outdated. While for the majority of the population books are just black and white characters scrawled across many pages, books are actually the magical vessels from the mind to an infinite amount of other worlds, lives, and times. Everyone knows what a book is, but not everyone knows just how far one can travel while reading. Among the letters and words strung along throughout a book there are far away lands such as Hogwarts, Mount Olympus, and even real places like Florida that can seem so real even if one has never been there. In books there are new people and creatures to meet such as witches, talking animals, and other mythical beings. The best authors create the most vivid images in the mind of the reader such as John Green in “Paper Towns.” He writes, “On the morning in question, she wore white shorts and a pink …show more content…
In between the bindings of a book there is no telling what is to come. From the first sentence to the last, every sentence in between tells a story that can be eye opening and enlightening. The Fault in Our Stars is a very simple story about a young woman suffering from stage four thyroid cancer who lives her days watching TV and taking loads of medicine. Nothing extraordinary happens to Hazel in this story, but the profound love she meets along her journey is in itself extraordinary. In this case, a simple story, one without a deathmatch or wizards, can be a heartbreak that is remembered for a lifetime. It is often forgotten that books, short or long, are so different than any other medium of