I don't think I've seen a drastic change in my reading style since starting high school. In middle school, I read lots of fiction teen novels and as much as I always enjoyed the dramatic plots and colorful imagery, I rarely finished a book and felt like it had opened my eyes in some way. Since starting high school, I've made a conscious effort to pick up books that are enlightening and at times, difficult to get through. Books like "Demian" and "The Stranger" left me feeling reborn at the end. I may have struggled through some of the metaphors and missed some of the meaning but I felt like I was seeing the world anew upon finishing.
I don't think my outside school reading choices were influenced by what I'm asked to read in school. Sometimes I get something out of the books we read in school and other times, I don't. That's just the way it goes. Some students are bound to like a book I hate and vice versa.
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