“Reading forces you to think, to piece together the story you are reading, to keep more and more information in your head as the story progresses. That exercise, gives your mind practice in understanding things. The more and varied you read, the more you understand. The more you understand, the more it reduces your ignorance and clarifies the world. The more your ignorance is reduced and more clarity you get, the smarter you feel and are perceived as such.” - Soham Mehta. As supported by the quote above, reading definitely helps us, as individuals, to become smarter and more capable of understanding. I strongly believe the value of reading is that it enables us to become more intelligent and literate.
One reason I believe this is to be true is my observations of the people around me. I’ve run into many people who are chosen to read aloud to the class. Keep in mind, I’m well aware of how often these people read which is, as expected, very little. They go on reading while fumbling on word pronunciation. However, when people who you always see with a book read aloud, they often read the paragraph flawlessly. This has lead me to believe that people who read books are definitely more literate than those who don’t, which, I think is the value of reading.
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Then, when she goes to school she has no trouble reading off a paper that Mrs. Fisher instructed her to. Compared to the other kids who don’t read as often in her class, Scout could be called a genius. This supports the idea that the value of reading is how it makes us smarter and less