Reflections on reading - Essay Example

My reflections on reading Let me began with the importance of reading. To my mind, all three my readings together brightly shows a variety functions of reading, which makes this processes important for everyone. “A Little Literature: Reading, Writing, Argument” by Sylvan Barnet is an anthology, so it’s brief, bright and useful and can give reader knowledge in particular sphere. “Last Night I Sang to the Monster” by Benjamin Alire Saenz is emotionally hard kind of book. It’s serious, deep and philosophical.

This kind of book one can read, if he wants to go into some intellectual reflections. Main hero, Zach is a complicated, not an ordinary person, who is put by author in not a casual kind of circumstances. Maybe this novel is even metaphorical: for example, Zach’s roommate in rehab has a name Raphael, what calls up a parallel with name Raphael like the angel’s name. (Koenig, L.) “Hairstyles of the Damned” by Joe Meno I loved most. It’s entertaining and helpful for young people, and a little bit philosophical – all at ones.

This novel gives reader an opportunity to feel like you are (or were) not alone with your teenage problems, and believe, that if everyone is going through it, you also will. First love and sex, complexes about the way you are and way you look, problems with friends, parents and at school – it’s all common teenage problems. To my mind, such books should be written for a different ages, because in every age there are specifical problems and fears, and in every age it’s important to feel you’re not alone.

I also loved the main hero for his mistakes and his honesty to himself. It’s often we can not explain all our emotions to other people, even to family and friends, but it’s important to confess your feelings to yourself and be not ashamed of what you desire. So after the end of my literature class, that force me to read, I think I still be reading sometimes for all three reasons: to know briefly something new, to think about high important things together with the intellectual author and to feel I’m not alone with something that bothers me right now.

Works citedKoening, Laura. “Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Saenz”.http://biblauragraphy.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/last-night-i-sang-to-the-monster-by-benjamin-alire-saenz/