All throughout life we were taught to read or fail; being told what and when to read, even how we should read it. How reading is so important that it will become part of our ever day lives, and how we will need it to become great. For personal preference, I have learned to not believe in that statement, the enjoyment of reading is not being told how, when or the importance of it, but the adventures that comes from it. Growing up in the country, there was not much that we could do to keep ourselves entertained, playing outside all day only to come in the house to eat whatever food our mother could whip together after working a twelve hour shift the previous night, which would normally consist of a tuna salad sandwich or a salmon fritter fried to perfection. During the day we would contemplate the varies sounds coming from across the road, where our grandparents would be, who were always trying to find different things to tinker with. When night would arrive, we were forced to sit in our room to read ridiculous stories about Peter Pan or Snow White that would elaborated on their adventure filled lives. Thus fuelling our minds with not only the knowledge of word play and sentence structure, but also our imaginations to venture on our next voyage. With books in our hand, watching our mother who would be standing in front of the stove making a delicious meal that was not only infused with cheese, and heavy cream using the simplest ingredients that created a taste that resembles those that sin in a box on the super market shelves. It was only natural to invite our grandparents over who took it upon themselves to say grace before the first bite would reach our mouths, thus showing our true nature of pure ol' country folk. Middle school was a challenging time for me as it is for most pre-teen adolescence, not only were our bodies changing but also our interests in the world. At this time I moved from reading children stories about electrifying endeavors, to novel's and trilogies. The most memorable book was Bottled Up by Jaye Murray ˜I want to know what to say to keep everybody off my back. Maybe there's one word, one sentence. Hell, I'll even sing a song if I have to. There was that one song from when I was a kid about the monkeys jumping on the bed. I'll change the words. ˜Ten little monkeys jumpin' on my back. I pushed them off ˜cause they didn't know jack. I smoked up some weed to get me some slack-here's more monkeys jumpin' on my back ' [Mur03]. This was my favorite quote throughout the whole book because it was what I wanted to do all throughout middle school, I never fit into any clique, nor did I even try. I believe that cliques were invented to make kids or even adults to conform to ideas and beliefs that are not within human nature. From the words of another great author J.R.R. Tolkien, "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve [JRR14]. As time went by I learned that books would be my true escape from reality, I was not beaten as a child nor have I really had a reason to want to escape this life that I was living, it just gave me the perspective that I was seeking. To be understood and to learn how people relate to one another, was the most important to me. However, as many children rebel against their parents I learned that submitting to their belief that reading would make me observe life better and get to know how people really act through the eyes of others it allowed me to learn how to help those that are destitute. As I entered High school my views on life has completely changed, learning how the human equation requires the weak minded individuals to obey those that had the skills to lead, which was something that I never understood. Where my parent have taught me how essential reading was I was placed in "college level classes �