When reading “To Kill a Mockingbird”, I often read in my room, in the car, or in my family room. Those were places where I felt I didn’t have anytime time limit meaning I could take as long as I wanted to read. I chose those places mainly because I really disliked the book at the beginning and needed a long time to try and get through it. Although this is what I was feeling at the beginning, it did change throughout the book. The thing that I really did dread at the beginning however was taking notes, making chapter summaries, and tracking character development. I found this was not useful to me at all (in the beginning) and just slowed my reading time down as I had to pause periodically and write things down on sticky notes. As I progressed …show more content…
My initial reaction as I mentioned before was not very good but it improve as the novel went on. It improved because as I got to understand the novel and characters more, I think the book intrigued me more and more as it went on and my desire to find out what happened in each chapter grew with my understanding of the characters. Some chapters I was into more than others, for example, the Trial section of the book is probably my favorite chapter overall however there were other chapters that here interesting too, on the other hand, there were chapters like Chapter 11 with the story of Ms. Dubose that I didn’t fully understand until we had talked about it in class. Talking about the chapters in class is really what gave me a good understanding of the book and the characters, I understand that at this point I should be starting to see these things on my own while reading but there is simply no way I could have gotten that much meaning out of some chapters as we did in class, it was great! That was probably what made my reading experience so enjoyable (the fact that we talked about them in class) and gave me a much better