Reading and Reasoning

I will be talking about the few exercises I have accomplished about reading and reasoning.

Basically, we have to read a context from " To Kill A Mocking Bird", and answer very thought-provoking questions about them, and normally the questions would be very difficult to score well. Through this book, I have learnt to analyse and scrutinise the contextual information, and yet come up with answers to the questions the worksheet poses. Firstly, through these exercises, I have learnt to comprehend why the author writes certain sentence structures and phrases them subsequently, and yet convey a certain message/ fulfil a certain motive.

In my opinion this comprehension will not only benefit me, it would illustrate my love for literature, and is essential in the future. As such, slowly, gradually, my love for literature will increase, and influencing my future jobs. Yes, it may look exaggerating but everything starts from a scratch. Therefore, through small repetitive exercises, my love for literature can multiply and I might be able to realize the beauty of writing. Perhaps I am discussing too generally, hence I will scope down to written literature instead, whereby TKAM is thought.

Essentially, this comprehension can be put to thinking through the reading of the title of TKAM itself. When you once look upon the book, you would think it is some non-fiction book on mockingbirds- or maybe that was what I thought of before knowing it was a classic-, but instead of surface thinking, why not plunge into a realm of deep thinking?

Reading and reasoning thereby scopes in on written literature, and even narrower, on the story TKAM. I think the reason why the school is giving us such practices, is to inculcate the habit of reading in everyone. Through this worksheet, one might ponder more about the language used, or sentence structure of the author. I do not know about how others think, but this is my perception.

As such, I advocate the idea of reading and reasoning, and that it will benefit us not only now, but also in the long run. With the learned ability to 'read and reason', story books will turn from boredom to entertainment- and that is what the world is globally encouraging. I hope everyone might look upon my opinion and perspective as a valuable one.

Benedict Chin