Lld 100a - Journal Entry: Brain Benefits from Reading

Brendon Yim

Professor Alkire

LLD 100A

Sep.17, 2015

Journal Entry: Brain Benefits from Reading

To read a book is a good process to help improve people’s logics; readers have to remember an assortment of characters, their backgrounds, ambitions, history, and nuances, as well as the various arcs and sub-plots that weave their way through every story. That’s a fair bit to remember, but brains are marvelous things and can remember these things with relative cases. Every new memory creates that associated strengthens existing memory, which is rich human knowledge and trains the human brain. Everyone knows the book is always better than the movie, but is there any real advantage to getting your information by reading it? Since human brain muscles benefit from a good workout, and reading is more neurobiological demanding than processing images or speech, every one should read more books.

If people don’t make a habit of reading regularly, they might be missing out: reading has a significant number of benefits. Also, people may miss a chance to know more wonderful stories. For example, Linguistics and Language Development Professor Alkire recommended a book, Syrian Yankee. This was one of the most inspiring books I never read, and it was a story about a boy who fought his fate and achieved his America Dream, and it includes some Syrian history. In Syrian Yankee, the Turkish terror left until Sam Risk stranded at the age of twelve. When Sam was a boy and when the Turks marauded and murdered in Syria, he saw patriots went to the gallows by the hundreds. His impressionable mind like a camera caught and recorded the pictures and presented to readers, such as, the horror, the terror, the injustice of it did things to Syrians. By his described, a human was the most terrible one of all the beasts. If people did not read this book, they may never know this period’s history in Syria, and they may not find the facts in the Internet.

If people kept reading Syrian Yankee, they would know about a foreign, Sam Risk how to fight his life in the new country, America. In another word, his story is also a history testimony of the United States. When Sam wandered that he a wild child, a schoolmaster told him a truth that he had a father and brother in the United States. He said Sam was born of an American mother, and he believed it. Sam discovered America and learned about America. In addition, Sam wanted to believe in it because the schoolmaster told him America was “a Heaven, the land of the Magic Carpet, of Aladdin’s Jamp, of ‘Arabian Nights’ splendor, and, more enthralling than this, the land of tolerance, of freedom, of opportunity, of education.” If Sam was really an American citizen, and if this was his birthright, he must go there at once. However, various delays prevented Sam joining his family in Sioux City, America. After five years, he finally came the dreamland – America. He Americanized and learned English through High School. Even though Sam was a 20 years old high school student, he still took that chance. When the Great Depression came, Sam almost forgot how a difficult situation it happened on his shoes shop, and he serviced the poor people to fix their old shoes. A delightfully extemporaneous style, a rich vein of humor, a keen sense of the dramatic, and a powerful social passion all these combined to make Mr. Risk the most unique platform personality. How a wonderful story I may never know if I do not take an action to read, and I miss a chance to train my brains and get rich my heart.