My fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Miller, was also my sixth grade teacher. She and I are still friends to this day. In fourth grade, she introduced me to the book "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe", which has changed my life (whose life hasn't it changed?!). She had this little cardboard castle, and if you were lucky enough, you could read in it during free reading time. I miss free reading time; that's something we need more of (if the book I ordered in AUGUST would just GET HERE!!). Alas, I grew up and onto the main memory we go.
We had free reading time in sixth grade as well, and once someone got the idea that we journey just outside of the classroom-- the front of the school with a couple trees and tons of grass and fresh air-- and have our reading time out there. JERNYUS! Mrs. Miller made it happen (got it approved), and our class traveled to the outside world with our books. This was one castle we could all read in.
It occurred to me that students sat back-to-back, touching and connecting with each other in the physical world, but their minds and imaginations were elsewhere. We could be touching, yet worlds apart. Hypothetically, someone was stuck in medieval times, someone else on the basketball court, and they needed the other for SUPPORT, yet they were in realms unrelated to each other.
It's amazing what stories can do, where they can take you. We can be waiting for the speed line beneath the city yet high upon the balcony of a medieval castle. We could be as single as ever yet engrossed in a dangerous and passionate love triangle. We can be holding hands, touching backs, etc. with someone yet be on completely different planets or in completely different time periods.
Stories have an amazing way of making the grounded fly.
È finito <3
- For: Milslice
Here we go again with narnia :) Anyway I totally see your perspective. I love books in that it's just like TV but in words form. Reading allow our imagination to wonder freely. It's like another world where you can do anything you want. For example, you can imagine yourself failing a test and not giving a hoot about it. Whereas in real life, you'll be freaking out. For me, I would let myself be lost in a book as a way to lose tress and a way to add adventure into my life.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely-- reading is awesome! Wouldn't it be nice not to stress so much about school? Haha Do you remember that day in sixth grade?
DeleteThis post may be short and to the point, but it captures the entire essence of reading a book. Books are the gateway to other worlds and that's why people love them. They help us escape from our lives and take part in the lives of others for that time we are reading. Getting into a good book and being transported to a land far away was always my favorite part of reading. If I have a book I love, I can zone out almost anywhere. Great post! It really described the "power" a book can have on us as its readers!
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