Jesus Gabriel Cabrera Jr

English Composition l Phase 1

When I was in elementary school, I didn’t like reading. I wouldn’t say I hated it, but I just couldn’t understand it, so many words on a single page front and back supposedly telling a story that you’d have to analyze and decipher after reading the story. I thought of almost anything else while reading because I thought it was boring, I thought of what I was going to eat for lunch or what Ima do after school whenever we have group readings, anything that would distract me from the boredom. I thought to myself is it me because I remember a child who had an issue with a reading called dyslexia something having them mix pronounce or understand words and I thought I had that so that would be my excuse for not reading or understanding text from my school. However, I began to think if was that really the issue or if was it me because I would start to tell myself maybe I’m just not interested or maybe I’m not reading the right book. In school, we have these categories for children’s reading comprehension and I’d always be at a lower level compared to everyone else I thought I was terrible like I was an outcast because everyone else was progressing and I wasn’t I was still the same. I remembered in kindergarten I used to love group readings from books that the teacher would show with pictures and images of the story taking place my favorite would be the Greek gods and their origins but there weren’t any books like those that piqued my interest around me at the time. The only books that were available were captain underpants and diary of a wimpy kid and I didn’t like those stories to me they like stories and art to truly captivate my interest and I thought why is there just nothing put there for me I would think that for a while. It happened during middle school when I found a book manga book and its art and story interest me, I thought to myself how I could have just found it now, Legend of Zelda twilight princess. It was beautiful it had fantasy adventure action and an actual plot to the story that was deep with amazing character development. So, I tried reading other manga as well sometimes I would have to read out loud because I couldn’t understand the words in my head. So, my teachers recommended I read out loud to have a better way of pronouncing the words. They were correct I improved in reading and understanding grammar I thought o myself I want to try writing my own manga but also why isn’t there anything here in America because the manga was from Japan? Come to my surprise the superheroes I’ve been watching all this time were based on comic books however I didn’t like how the current ones were written or told. A lot of the current comic books were told in a way that made you question the morals and actions or instead of them being Positive role models thee became darker and eviler which I think is an issue a lot of people must understand isn’t relatable. People see figures like batman as unrealistic which is true in the sense a man who dresses up as a bat fighting crime isn’t at all relatable but his morals of not killing anyone or putting villains in jail just so they can break out and cause more problems is insane. I don’t think that batman however should kill in his comic books because the idea is that he wants to stop villains and kill them batman as a person doesn’t view himself as judge or jury depute how he may fight crime and be a vigilante he doesn’t view himself above the law to take another life and he knows killing is something you can’t come back from and that realistic in my opinion that’s something a lot of people need to see in this comic. Here we have a man on a mission to bring justice and protect the innocent in a dark city known as Gotham while both the police and crooks want to either kill or arrest him. A story of tragedy self-sacrifice action adventure and a little bit of romance which is something I want to include in my comic book one day. Comic books and manga have helped improve my reading and grammar comprehension over the years however I wouldn’t just recommend them to people to read all the time there are good stepping stones to help you read actual books which is what I’m doing now.