Anticipation While Reading

By Parker Nagtegaal 

         Anticipation can ruin an entire experience. When I read The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn I enjoy it. Mainly because at the current moment the book is very interesting, but because it’s so good in the back of my mind I’m always thinking that it will get very boring. Huck has been on an adventure from a very early point on in the book. So I’ve been eager to read the book every night. But because of this I’m thinking that for a classic this is to interesting, so I’m convinced that it will hit a down hill very soon. I’m reading this book because in Mr Fitzsimmons English class he wanted us to try reading a “Real Book”. By this he meant a classic. Everyone in my class has to read (multiple) classic books in a month. Everyone responded to this negatively, but as everyone started to read we realized that the books aren’t so bad. I started to read Huck Finn. The beginning was kinda boring but it started to pick up. But I can’t help but to think about how boring classics are supposed to be. I never thought that a classic could be interesting; I never thought that I would enjoy this book; I never thought that a classic wouldn’t be boring. This has lead me to (quite literally) judging a book by its cover