Proposal
Though it is difficult for me to choose a genre that ill attempt to read and stay with for this proposal m decisions have been made. Ill go through the genre of fiction and begin heading toward a complete proposal os the books I will read.
My first book that I plan to read is:
- The things they Carried by Tim O’Brien
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- To kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
- The Book Thief Markus Zusak
The books that I am listing first I cannot say I had a genre I was looking for simply because i had no choice in reading these books. each book was read to me in class and each influenced me in a different way. I now look at these books and know that although I did not choose them i would being reading for stories i could feed my imagination with and believe in.
Abiyoyo was the book that set my imagination on fire. The teacher that read to the class would turn the pages and I would be taken into another instance of awe. This book made me a lover of imagery and music. The moment where the Abiyoyo appear has stayed with me forever. I still see the the silhouette of the Abiyoyo on the horizon as the sun stands orange in the background.It carries an emotion with it that I still feel when I read the story.
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is the book that married rhythm and word together for me. Each word composed a rhythm that made me fall in love with this book. The rhythm in this book sends me back into the classroom where I was first read this book. To me it was one of my first music lessons and one of the most important.
One of the books that also influenced my imagination was the book “where The Wild Things Are”. I saw this book as a guide to understanding the power of my imagination. I did not push this idea away of going into an imaginary word but instead embraced it. It was the first time where monster carried a different connotation than being scary and not to be imagined. This book made me want to enter this world where the monsters were the most important part of my imagination.
“I did not push this idea away of going into an imaginary
word but instead embraced it”
The next three books I speak about have a genre that I believe had genre in common i was reading for but never noticed. Fiction,novel and poetry were the genres that i know I was looking for. The imagery and poetic text in these stories were what captured me and did not allow me to forget these stories. I also believe that I needed these books to satisfy my need for reflection and understanding of different situation that i had not encountered yet.
The book “Night” was the first book that challenged me to give in to a book and open my eyes to horror I had never paid full attention to. My teacher gave this book to me to read for class and before that I had never read through a full book by myself. Being the first book I ever read by myself and I was surprised when I read through in only a couple of days. This book gave me insight and introduced to me the power of what a book can do.
“Like Water For Chocolate” is a title of a book I could never be able to forget. This work was complex in that it mixed in things like recipes with each text. This book was dynamic and paralleled food and life in such a profound and intense fashion. I was hesitant at first to read this book but after reading through it I experience the creativity of an author that made food a metaphor for life.
My senior year of high school I gained a perspective through the book “Things Fall Apart” that I never expected. The insight into a culture and perplexities of tradition was expressed with wonder in this book. The imagery in tis book was amazing to me because at one point the writer begins to write about the ghost that come through town in the night. He shows you through the text the darkness and bring you into the village where the story takes place. You feel the darkness, you feel the fear and are present in the book.
Here are some of the texts that i was able to read and find myself constantly thinking about them and there impact.
Candide
Raisin in the sun
Margoux
Time machine
The immortal life of Henrietta lacks
The Penguin Anthropology of Twentieth Century american Poetry
Beowulf
Pigmalion
Zathura
Animal farm
The Giver
flowers for Algernon
Native Son
The Catcher and the Rye
Tears of Tiger
The Diary of Anne frank
Brave new world
Macbeth
The odyssey
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