College Admissions Essay: The Little Engine That Could

When I was about six years old, I was nothing like the person I am today. I was so much more artistic and outgoing than I am now. I would paint, craft, and occasionally read. I would frequently force my mother to read my favorite book with me, The Little Engine That Could. I also insisted that my mother read me a poem every night, since they were easy to understand. I didn’t enjoy books that challenged me, or expanded my minimal vocabulary, but either way, my mother was happy that I was reading something so she didn’t push me any further. My school didn’t push me either and my homework was almost nonexistent, to my father’s great displeasure. He wanted me to be challenged so that I wasn’t just reading as a hobby but rather, as a way to learn and grow as he had done in the past. He loved reading since he was a young child in Peru, and developed an almost instant understanding that reading was an amazing skill to have; which lead him to read at every possible moment. This was especially true when he came to America and …show more content…
Most parents would have given up after their child refused to read and threw a fit to rival all fits, but my father was just as stubborn as I was and he ordered me to read the story. I began to read the book and didn’t understand at least half of the words in it and the words I did understand were used so elaborately that my understanding was lowered to about zero. I had a lightbulb moment and told my dad that I couldn’t read the book because the words were too hard. He simply replied by telling me to look the words up in the dictionary which I didn’t do because in my opinion dictionaries were just as bad as the book itself. I stomped back to where I had been sitting and sat down to try to read. When I got to my mother’s house I didn’t comment on my inferno because I thought it was a one time thing, I was sorely

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College Admissions Essay: The Little Engine That Could

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