A Intuitive Experience Reading 

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin

     Over the course of the past week, I have begun to read the adventure classic Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne. In the beginning, my experience reading the book had just seemed okay, but did not grab my attention at first. However, the book did introduce foreshadowing and the characters fairly well, and once I read further into the book, I began to like reading this piece of literature a little more. My attitude towards the book changed significantly as the plot evolved and the chase after the “monster” had begun. The book only recently intrigued me enough that I now enjoy reading the adventure classic. Occasionally, I will start to get distracted while reading by my phone. I encountered this problem many times during the first few chapters, but after I put my phone in a different room while reading and I was able to understand the boo and uncover themes. I was content with reading, and didn’t want to spend my time otherwise with another activity. Once I had immersed myself in the book, I uncovered the theme “Everything is not as it seems” based on the events in the book. One example of the theme which I discovered in my reading was the shocking experience when the crew had thought the nautilus, a very advanced submarine lurking below the waters, was the monster which they had been searching for. In conclusion, reading the classic novel was a very productive and beneficial experience discovering the characters and the book.