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Books

I will love to read until the day I die. Reading fills me with knowledge, but it also provides me with a way to see into the lives of other people. For example, the book in the picture is Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. When I read this I was able to see what life was like in France during that time. It is if I am there with the characters. I am able to experience something that I never would have been able to in real life. I can feel the characters strife. I rejoice with them and I weep with them as well. I am angered by the injustices that occur to these characters. Especially with Les Miserables because even though the characters are fictional, the terrible acts of human cruelty are not. I am disturbed that people were treated so poorly. I am frustrated that there is nothing I could do to help those people. I am angered because I know that people are still treated poorly today. That history has not failed to repeat itself yet again. By reading this book I was able to get such a rich perspective of the poor in middle nineteenth century France.   I was also able to, in a way, get to know Victor Hugo. I was able to see what he believed through the story he wrote. Books are a window into the past. It comforts me to know that some aspects of the past are not forgotten. I feel as though it is my responsibility to remember the terrible things that people have done to others.

 

 

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