Readings

I am not a person that loves to read on their free time. However, I have read a lot of novels, poems, articles, and other kinds of reading. Some of the novels I have read are "Their Eyes were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston, "The Stranger" by Albert Camus, "I984" by George Orwell, "Othello" by William Shakespeare, "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D Salinger, "The Odyssey" by Homer, "The Great Gatsby", and many mores. One of my favorite novel is "The Giver" by Lois Lowry which I read in middle school. "The Giver" was a novel based upon a world that is different from the one we live on. It is a world with no color, pain, emotion, and where the society is organized and alike. When kids reach twelve years old, they are assigned to specific jobs according to what they are good at. However, Jonas who is turning 12 does not know what he will be assigned because he does not see anything that he is good at. Jonas cares for others and he starts to see new things that others are not able to see like when he throws an apple he suddenly sees the apple with color while it is on the air. At The Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas is given the highly honored Assignment of Receiver of Memory. The Receiver's job is to be the keeper of the community’s collective memory where he receives the memories of the past, good and bad, from the current Receiver which tells Jonas to call him the Giver. After receiving all the memories, he wants every body to also have all those memories because the memories has given him the opportunity to experience a new world that has beauty even though it also has negative things and he wants others to have all those wonderful memories back. I love "The Giver" because it shows how a world without color, love, pain, and other things would be boring and would not be a nice world to live on. "The Giver" is an easy novel to read, but the reader has to read it careful from the beginning to the end of the novel to understand it. On the other hand, "Othello" is one of the novel that I did not loved its ending because it was a cruel and upsetting ending. I dislike the fact that Othello kills his "beloved" wife and then kills himself because of Iago 's evil plan of destroying their strong relationship which it worked at the end of the novel. I not like reading novels that are too difficult to understand like novel from Shakespeare which you have to analyze and try to find out what he is trying to say because instead of just enjoying the reading, you are spending more time trying to find out the meaning and idea of what you are reading inorder to understand the story .