Creative writing

Reading and Not Reading

By: Monica de la Cruz A01374485

It can be argued that books and their existence is essential in our society now at days, developing the human mind by teaching various point of views in a subject. This generates an immense fight between the ones who believes in this argument and the ones who don’t.  I am a firmly believer of this argument, since I have seen in front row seats the difference between a “bookworm” and a not reader. In this small essay I will try to persuade you to agree with me.

Lets look at persons close to us, people who are easy to analyze, since we see them every day. In every debate we should do a previous research about our subject, since we have to find data that supports our arguments, but when we are in the heat of the argument, we use all the arguments that we can think of to make the other person agree with us, or at least to say enough convincing arguments to persuade the public to take our side. The information obtained from our research might not always be enough, even when we feel like experts on the subject, there are sometimes not enough things to say that will help us win. In this case reading and its consequences kick in, we might say a quote from an author, or bring a book`s plot into the debate that will help us. Known quotes of persuasion such as “Neglected but Undefeated I stand today living the life I was told I would never live all because my faith grew.” will help us win or not. I`ve been to some debates, and I have take participation in some. In all of them the ones who reed the most have better arguments, since they have solid information to back them up and a convincing structure, all of the reader have a ability of forming a argument in seconds, since books help a person have a more open mind about subjects, and shows different points of view of a subject.

Reading stimulates the mind; it opens it to new world and new situations with every chapter that we read. This becomes a enormous help when we are put in a difficult situation, readers don’t stand still and goes with the flow, they create their own flow and are available to have better persuasive arguments. In this 400 word essay I only exposed one close reason that I have lived that help me realize what reading does to your mind.