Reading: Fun or Chore?

                      

There are so many different views on whether or not reading is fun. Some people love reading, and do it every day, while others think that it’s a chore, and hard to even get through a chapter. I think reading can be fun if you are reading a book that you actually like.

If you are forced to read a book that you don’t like, its hard to sit there for an hour trying to get through the book. If you someone is forced to read then they won’t look at the book in a positive way, and they won’t want to think the book is good. This is why I think a lot of students don’t read the books that their teachers give them, because they feel like they have to read the book. What makes it even worse is when a teacher assigns a certain amount of pages that each person has to read per night, then you feel pressured to read the book, and fully understand it. I think that you should read because you want to, not because you have to.

“Reading a lot will make us better”, so they say. I agree that reading can teach us new words, facts, and ideas, but when students are forced to do it, nobody actually wants to do it. However this fact that reading makes us better, isn’t completely true, because a lot of things other then just reading can make us better. For example speaking with others, listening to others, and many other things also affect us, not just how much we read.

Reading can be good however because, reading can take you to a different world.  Reading can get you out of reality. Sometimes the only way to get away from the troubles of life is to read a good book, where you completely lose yourself in the book. By getting into someone elses skin you can forget about all of your problems, and only worry about what is happening in this other world.

Reading can also pass the time. If you are going through something, or just need to make it to the next day, reading can be a great way to do it. Reading is relaxing, time consuming, and more over a great time. You can learn a lot about yourself and about the book, and its characters just by sitting down to read a good book. If you have nothing else to do, or all you have is a book, reading can be a fun activity, that you can do almost anywhere.

For me reading can be fun only if I am reading a really good book, which I picked out, and actually like. If you are forced to read, then it will be almost impossible to actually enjoy what you are reading.