What does it mean to be a reader?

Sabrina Brown

Wight period 2

Reading is the most important skill a person can learn in their life. People read everyday weather its finding the bathroom or finding a dead body, most people associate reading with books but reading can go to much greater lengths. You don’t have to be intellectual to be a reader but you have to be a reader to be intellectual.

The definition of a reader is someone who loves to read. Being a reader means that you understand not just words but sentences in whole. It also means that you comprehend everything you are reading. There are different ways to read in the world and different forms of reading. Reading is not just words in a book you can read clues to a mystery, directions through the sun and stars, or even reading body language from a friend. Reading is all over the world and can make others see what you see. By writing a book, changing the language, and selling it to other countries, you can share your opinion with others. Reading is a way of communication as in “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe. Achebe wrote the book to inform others about the destruction of such a unique culture only for their natural resources. With this book being spread around the world informed the destructors and had a huge impact on Africa.

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This is why people write it’s because everyone is forced to read every day. People write to entertain, or inform, persuade, or make decisions about something to someone and when people write people read. Being an active reader is not the same as reading books frequently but joining a book club or discussing with friends and analyzing the author’s text and understanding the author’s purpose. By analyzing and discussing the book the reader gets a better view of the meaning of the text and also learns as well. One of the main ways of learning is through reading.

Reading uses all of your six senses. We taste to read food and their ingredients, we touch to read brail, we smell to read our environment, we hear to listen to what is being read or told to us, and we see the words everywhere we go to get to where we are going to. The most important sense with reading is imagination, put yourself in the authors shoes and feel through the book, flow with its problems and this will help you become a great reader.  This is the best way to communicate because we can’t get far without reading.

Mostly, being a true reader means that you love to read between books, billboards, magazines, or newspapers. A true reader can stay up all night and curl up with a good book. They can sit down and thoroughly analyze everything and understand what the author is saying. And most likely, in the future they will become the author and write some of the best novels.  This would be a true reader.