The New Adventure of Literature

  I’m always fond of English literature; however, everything I read was in Chinese. There are many books I like, for example, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice , George Orwell’s 1984 and Dickens’ Oliver Twist. After opening the books, I can see an adventurous world floating over the pages. Now I’m in Singapore, which offers me a great opportunity to read in English.

  Also, we have been taught reading strategy which I’d like to apply to my reading. Therefore in SELF I chose a novel called To Kill a Mocking Bird which I have heard before and started reading. The reason why I chose it is that it’s quite famous and relates to the human rights and Negroes in early 20^th century, which I’m interested in. Also it is faced to younger reader, so I can start more easily. As told in class, skim first, and then read in detail. Despite the words I don’t know, I got the main meaning of the chapter 1 and found it attractive. However, there is still one problem bothering me, which is about new words. I don’t know when to look them up is proper. If I look up them during reading, it’s easy to forget the story and where I was and hard to recall. If I let them go, I will lose the chance to enrich my vocabulary even can’t understand the book. Can anybody give me some suggestions? 

  Due to books in SELF aren’t available when we are back, I bought two novels last week. I have heard them both before and saw the movie of October Sky. That’s an inspiring story about pursing dreams. And I will start reading it immediately.

 Although reading English novel is difficult for me, I believe one day I can enjoy my adventure without difficulty, which needs a lot of effort, skills and time. I’m sure that finally I’ll achieve it!