This year we read multiple iconic pieces of literature and were given the opportunity to share our ideas and opinions on the topics. Reading and evaluating literature is one of the many ways we can learn and grow. Reading a book is like taking a class from a professor. Looking back at that memory now, I feel slightly less offended partly because I noticed she was reading an Archie Comic and partly because I can finally understand the full meaning of the quote. That’s when she proceeded to quote Martin it felt as if she had just threatened me and my intelligence. Second of all, just because I don’t read doesn’t mean I don’t understand English. I asked what it was called and she replied that I ‘wouldn’t understand’ because I don’t read. In middle school, there was a girl sitting next to me reading a book. As someone who doesn’t read much outside of the classroom, I felt a bit offended when I first heard this quote. Martin, the writer of the book series A Song of Ice and Fire later adapted into the HBO series Game of Thrones, modernized a once-popular William Shakespeare quote for one of his novels who knew that this one quote would be heard by millions of people who have never read his books, let alone included in this graduation speech. The author behind one of the most well-known television series once stated that, “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one.” George R.
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