Reflective Essay On Milk And Honey Rupi Kaur

Thinking back on all my past reading and writing experiences, I have always hated writing but loved reading. Writing for me was always a struggle and felt like a chore because I would try to write my story based on what I thought the teacher wanted to hear, until I read the book Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur. The way that Rupi Kaur wrote her book Milk and Honey changed the way that I viewed my style of writing. In Milk and Honey she writes about four different topics that have affected her life, the hurting, the loving, the breaking, and the healing. In Milk and Honey Rupi Kaur uses a very realistic and personal style of writing. The hurting is all the terrible, dark, and twisted experiences she went through as a kid and all the different ways the people who were supposed to care about her were the ones that hurt her the most. The loving is how she felt when she feel in love, and the breaking is how it felt when that love was taken away from her. My favorite section of the book was

I struggled to write essays and stories because I focused too much on what I thought my English teachers wanted to hear me say, instead of what I actually thought. I dreaded thinking about senior year English because I knew that meant boring paper after boring paper, but the summer before my senior year started I read the book Milk and Honey. At first I found the story to be very dark and depressing, but when I got to the last section of the book, the healing, I realized that she was telling her life story. I decided to go back and read the book from the beginning, but this time I saw the book as if I was standing next to her has she went through these experiences and I couldn’t put the book down, her story intrigued me. Rupi Kaur taught me that it is okay to tell people how you really feel and share with them those personal