Category: Coffeehouse #1 (Page 2 of 2)

The essays of Alexia and Scibona both had significant connection with personal struggles they individually faced in their lives.  Sherman Alexia “Superman and Me” expressed the importance of education and an approach to obtaining it. Sherman writes about the events which led him to fall in love with reading. Sherman included many details and mentions characters such as his father as source of connection to the love of reading and novels.  Sherman states “A smart Indian is a dangerous person”, I believe any smart person is a dangerous one and him coming from an Indian background the expectation of failure was common in this non-Indian world he lived in. Knowledge is one thing money cannot buy and is the power that creates great outcomes and Sherman understood that he used that to break free from this customary lifestyle.  Similar to Sherman this relates to my personal desire to acquire more knowledge. Sherman read everything from comic books to signs to anything that had words which adds up to the reason he fell in love with reading and ultimately him becoming a writer.  This essay can be used as a motivation for kids or anyone seeking a love for reading or the desire to have the ability to control his own path in life.

Coffeehouse # 1

This short essay was similar to the first reading but instead of the main character loving books from a young age, this one portrayed the rebellious behavior of a teenager trying to refuse anything that is assigned to him and only doing as he pleases. The story mentions how he was a lost cause to himself and the fact that he would simply swing his eyes across the pages, not understanding what he’s really reading but wasting time in a sense. However, I believe he was doing this because he was searching for something in his teenage life so he could establish a future for himself. He wanted to discover a purpose of his own, he sounds like a person who just likes to “wing it” so to speak, but only when he was the one who made that decision for himself if people told him to do something he would deny it. What he needed was to leave his old environment, get to college and start being an independent adult. One who has to work in order for his body to survive and for his mind to survive he had to marry reading. This really resonated with me because I am also someone who needs a change in environment and some pressure even, all in order for me to actually enjoy what I am doing because it was a choice that I made on my own.

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