After reading Malcolm x’s “Learning to Read” essay, I remember when I overcame my challenge through hard work and sticking to my Goal. It was when I first came to America I was in 6th grade. I didn’t really know English very well at that time, so it was hard for me to read and comprehend certain things taught
I couldn’t communicate very well with people because I would doubt myself wondering if I said the right thing. I would stutter, and it made me scared of public speaking. I didn’t really knew how to write a properly, or how to use punctuations and grammar. so I asked my teachers to help me to write better and learn more vocabulary, I would get tested on vocabulary, and ask for help when I needed them
So to learn English, I started reading and I never liked anything that was easy. The first book that I choose to read my friends and the teacher told me it would be too tough for me to read but I always loved challenges and I wanted to read a tough book. I started to read the Maximum ride by James Patterson it was a 422-page book and read all the books that were in that series. I have read most of James Patterson’s teen books; his books were a gateway for me to many genres.
From reading that first book it made me realize that I just came over my challenge. My challenge was to communicate and understand English. and reading those tough books I have learned a lot of vocabularies and I have come so far from where I have started