First Response "The Achievement of Desire"

This read was really easy for me. I can't put my finger on why it was such a "page turner" but it just was. It doesn't have any hidden message or meanings for me and yet, I wasn't easily distracted when reading it. Usually when I read, I have to have complete silence - no television, no music, nothing - just silence. When I was reading this essay, the television was on and yet I didn't pay any attention to it. Like I said, I don't know why, but it was easy for me to follow along and read until the end. It didn't make me want to go to sleep or anything.

I thought it was interesting in the end. It definitely proves the phrase everyone uses, "You don't know what you have until it's gone". It took him awhile after he was gone to realize it, but he realized it in the end. To me, it seemed like he went backwards in time. When he was young and first started reading books in school, he had to meet with a nun after school and read with her in the room and out loud, otherwise he felt alone. Toward the end, the book states, "I yearned for that time when Ihad not been so alone. I became impatient with books. I wanted experience more immediate. I feared the library's silence". It sounds like he went back to being the way he was before he got into books, before he realized that "Books were going to make me "educated". It didn't say what grade he was in or how old he was.