Beauty of Books

 

I know the image of books is not something that everyone finds beautiful. While many hate books and find it torture to have to read one. The thing I find most beautiful about a book is the authors. Think about it, these books are someone’s story that they get to share with the world. Weather it is fiction or nonfiction someone wrote it. Books represent all walks of life because the people that wrote books came from all walks of life. The Harry Potter series was written by J.K. Rowling.  She was someone who was, at the time, a single mother in England and who needed welfare to support her daughter and herself. Edgar Allen Poe was an orphan who had to join the military to support himself.  I find it beautiful that so many got to share their story.

For a book to be a thing of beauty it must contain a story of some sort. I believe that most stories contain some lesson that the reader can benefit from. Think about all the books you have read. For me, my favorites are books are the ones that I have learned something from. For example, Pride and Prejudice, written by Jane Austen was where I was confronted by the message that first impressions aren’t always correct. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, also had a lesson for me.  Though some might doubt that this book has any deep lesson besides that a bow and arrow is a great weapon to have in the woods, I saw the lesson that I should be thankful that I live in the country I do. It caused me to appreciate a place where I am not afraid to speak my mind and where I am not forced to sign up for a chance to die in order to get food. The book also shows that life isn’t fair but you cannot just crawl in a ball and let life occur.  You have to fight the best you can. Even children’s books have a message. Take the book Green Eggs and Ham authored by Dr. Seuss.  The lesson I discovered in this book is to be brave enough to try new things. You never know if you will or won’t like it if you never try it. These messages remind me that not just stories but lessons are shared through books.

Though I find books to be an unobserved beauty I wasn’t sure if this was what I wanted to choose as my first blog.  I wanted my first post to be relevant to what this blog assignment means to me. But as I developed my reasoning’s for choosing books I realized that books were the perfect topic to start out this blogging adventure with.  In a way, a blog is someone’s book; a place to write the stories and thoughts that fills your mind. Hopefully, the people that read blogs find themselves learning lesson that will help them in their life.