Books #3

One of the first influential books that I can remember reading was called Tangerine. I believe that this a very important book for me personally because the book was the first one that I read that had a handicapped boy as the protagonist. He has a visual disability but he is far from being able to sense different things about his family and his life. Since I am physically disabled as well I was able to relate to the main character as well. This was one of the first books that I had to read and some I did not like and some I did. I could not stop reading this book.

The second book that I loved was Fahrenheit 451. This told the story in the near future that books were outlawed and the job of the firefighters to burn books. The book was very interesting to me because the subject matter dealt with something very strange and foreign to me. This was another book that was required for me to read but I could not put the book down.

Finally, the book that I absolutely loved and was also required to read was called The Giver. When I first read the book, I did not understand it but as I read more and more I envisioned a black and white society. There were specific people that were chosen to be the receiver of all emotions, good and bad. As well as having a receiver, there is also a giver that gives the emotions to the receiver. Through that process, the protagonist learns a lot about himself and I love how the character relates to all the different emotions that we now today.