Finley Stevens

My Oveall Experience

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

-Fredrick Douglass

Reading provides a totally different experience that nothing else can provide. The Swiss Family Robinson is a great classic that provides an experience that no other type of book can provide besides a classic. While reading The Swiss Family Robinson it brought me to a place that nothing besides reading can bring you to. This project is an experience that I’ll never forget, not only because it taught me new vocabulary words or because it was a completely different style book then I like reading but because it was one of the very first classic books I’ve ever read. I started reading The Swiss Family Robinson because we were required to read a classic for a project that Fitz does every year with his class. We were expected to read the book that we choose in one month, and along with that we had to write a literary reflection and a blog post about anything every week. Along with a lot of other people I was not excited for this project, but after I got a few chapters into my book I wanted to keep reading and eventually didn’t have much of a problem with the reading part of the project. About a week in I got into a flow and was finally ready to face the fact that I would have to read every night. There were so many different themes portrayed throughout the book, I found these themes in many different instances, for example when the father and one of his sons are going on adventures around the island looking for sign of life or when they have to figure out a way to get to land from the boat after it crashes. Just like the family they had to accept the challenges about living on a remote island I to had to accept the challenges of this project. At the beginning of this project you may have heard me complaining about having to read a book and write two paragraphs each weekend. But after everything I would say that it was a good project and it was well worth it in the end.