Oko Nelson Essays (351 words) - Life Skills, Linguistics

Oko Nelson Professor Bonnie Pratt Com 122 January 16, 2018 Any Reading Makes You Intelligence In "Reading Literature Make Us Smarter and Nicer" Annie Paul claims that individuals that reads Novels, poems, and fiction books are better able to understand other people, empathize with them and view the world from their perspective there for making them smarter and nicer. I agree with her claim that reading makes you understand the world better, improve writing skills , enhanced your intelligence, and helps you empathize with other people. On the other hand I don't agree that only reading fiction literature makes enhances your intelligence. Reading opens up a world for you that everyone has to expe rience . It teaches you things you never knew, help communicate with better, and makes you smarter, and most important makes you a better person. Today many people believe reading is not a necessity, such people have a low vocabulary, poor communication skills , and low intelligence; like what Paul said "young people are deprived from a elevating and enlightens experience of reading that will enlarge them as people" . N owadays young people only read when their teachers tell them to and are so attached to their digital devices and because of this kids are deprived of intelligence an there for not able to keep up with today's reading standers. Even though reading as a whole makes you smarter and helps you empathize with other people reading just non-fiction does not make you smarter or empathetic . I love reading books that teaches me something new every day, but I don't enjoy is reading non-fiction because in a since it is not real, so why waste time reading a story when you can read an educational book or a biography of someone's life that can build you up. There are more people like me who are not tone to reading non-fiction literature, but love to reading in general and are very smart. Like what Pa ul said we need no fix t his issue with young people and show them have amazing reading is