The Reader I Am

The Reader I Am

I read for many reasons and have different feelings about reading different things.  So, for our assignment to create a collage showing the kind of reader I am, I used pictures having to do with some of the reasons that I read and the different feelings that I have when I read.

I chose the picture of the boy and the girl reading with the world between them because it reminds me of when I used to read when I was living in China.  Once I got to the U.S., I found out that some of the stories that I had read in China were read by children here.  I think that people all over the world read some of the same things.  The picture “Imagination’s Destination” made me think about how I sometimes read a book about a faraway place, or even a place that is not real.  But, it is like I am in the place in the story.  It is like I am there. 

I chose the “Reading is Cool” picture, because it is cool that I can read something and learn about things and places that I have never seen.  The picture with the girl in bed and reading with the flashlight, and the one that says “346 Minutes Later” both remind me of when I was in China and reading a book that I really liked.  I did not want to stop reading until I finished the book.  Sometimes I would be reading when my bed time came.  I would use my flashlight to read when I was supposed to be going to sleep.  If the story was very good, I wanted to find out what happened next. If my parents found out that I was reading, they would make me turn off the light and stop reading.  I would be upset, because not being able to finish a good book is like not seeing all of a movie.

The woman with her hands on her face looking between the books, and the girl studying remind me of how much homework I have sometimes, and the boy sleeping with the book over his head shows what I want to do when I am too tired to study.