Essay Writers as Readers

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Alexie, Sherman. Reading and Writing: Superman and Me - WordPress.com. /cr?IG=718510DED31B4CBE97336DCBD4A411BB&CID=365210260DB76D5E09DD1BC20C186CE5&rd=1&h=RYDg0vQIHhExVvtdS2yn4jOfI7FgXktRQ1KakrCRz8Y&v=1&r=https://mayobrock.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/shermanalexie-superman1.pdf&p=DevEx.LB.1,5364.1.
In “Reading and Writing: Superman and Me,” Sherman Alexie shared his childhood experience of how he turned his passion into the career and what type of problems he had to face at that time. Just like his father, the poor Indian boy developed an interest in books. He continued reading many books until he developed strong writing skills and eventually started writing short stories, novels, and poems himself. From a positive point of view, reading books is a good habit. It allows us to develop excellent interpersonal skills and helps us expand our knowledge. From a negative point of view, however, becoming bookworm is not beneficial as it keeps us away from the real life and gets us involved in an imaginary world. That little Indian boy was doing the same. He disconnected himself from the real world and spent most of his time with his books. Finally, a time came when he started considering himself a Spiderman. His entire personality and individuality relied on his habit of reading books and writing short stories. Both of them can benefit us, but only when we don’t make reading or writing an obsession. From this short story, it looks like reading was more of an obsession for that young boy than a time-pass.
Fediman, Anne. “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman.” Goodreads, Goodreads, 25 Nov. 2000, /book/show/46890.Ex_Libris.
In “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader,” Anne Fadiman shared how she grew up writing a huge collection of essays and how she enjoyed this habit thoroughly. She and her brother tried to formulate some new words and phrases and came up with words like “paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde," meaning a smelly chemical. They took no time to become prominent writers, and along with their parents, Anne and her big brother gave a tough competition to the participants of a weekly TV show "G.E. College Bowl." This quiz show consisted of two teams of brilliant students from two different colleges. At a point, Anne called themselves Fadiman and admitted that they weren’t as intelligent as the students of Brandeis and Colorado College, and this is what we call confession of a person. Other than this reading, I hardly read any essay where the writer admitted his or her mistake. Most of them are too judgmental and keep arguing about useless things. In contrast, Anne Fediman admits that she ...