Recently I completed The Lovely Bones by Alice Seibold, a compelling story of a girl who dies, but still feels the need to look after her family and the people she loved. This book is filled with deep insightful meaning, which I am not sure I would have been able to understand as effectively if my mind was not at its current level. In the past year I have learned so many new things that made me a better reader and writer. Looking back to how I wrote in eighth grade, I noticed that all of my writing pieces are not as well developed as they are now. Also I realized that I have become a more prominent reader and thinker, and that has helped me to better analyze what I see and read. All that I have learned over the past years have made me understand what I read and see so much more clearly. I greatly appreciate all that I have learned because it has made me the greatly improved reader and writer I am today.
