For my Rhetorical Studies class this semester, I had to do an assignment highlighting the events or individuals in my life that have contributed to my development as a reader. This is what I wrote:
The most influential person who contributed to my growth and desire to be a reader came from my mother, whose picture is in the lower left-hand corner of the quilt. However, each picture on my quilt somehow relates back to my mother. My mother has always been an avid reader of all books: secular and religious. She has always been an example to me of a woman seeking after knowledge. She is definitely responsible for my love of reading today. I remember she would read to me and my sisters when we were little. We loved hearing the stories of Peter Rabbit from The Beatrix Potter Collection. As we grew up and learned to read, she would help us with our reading assignments and help us to sound out words. One of the first books I remember reading was If you Give a Mouse a Cookie. About 8 years old is when I received The Silver Slippers, which taught me about self-confidence and came with a matching necklace. I learned a lot from books. When I got to be about 12 or 13 and summer vacation would come, my mother would take my sisters and me to the library and we would pick out a stack of books. My older sister and I shared a room at that time and we would just sit on our beds and read for hours. I remember that we especially liked the Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine and the Sweet Valley Twins series by Francine Pascal. From these experiences, I fostered a love for reading and a love for going to the library. I started tackling The Work and the Glory series when I was a teenager, due to my development as a reader. Those books propelled me into the genre of spiritual books in which I have learned much about the Gospel. Reading was a positive experience that has carried into my adult years and the more I read, the more knowledgeable I become.
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