Canale 1 Danie! Canale UWRT1108-F02 Professor Raymond 2 September 2015 My Literary Start Learning to write was one of the things I remember the most out of my childhood because it was one of the most difficult things for me. It definitely had an impact on how I write today. Through late nights and a lot of hard work, [ have been shaped into the writer | am today. [As far back as I ean remember, my mother was the one that had always been there ‘teaching me to write. My father helped but my mother had the biggest impact. It started with / simple things like, how to write the alphabet and how to write my numbers. Then it moved in to swore complicated things such as writing sentences, alding punctuation and so forth. | always remember my mother reading me a story before bed. My favorite book was The Giving Tree (Silverstein). It always stood out from the others for some reason, and | can't quite explain why. It had a special meaning that I could kinda connect with and I believe that is why | ‘ama the person I am today. As far as impact on my literary side | feel it gave me the ability to write descriptively and with reason. Though the book itself has simple sentences, as a child who used his imagination quite often, it felt like a critically acclaimed novel. Reading and writing were a skills that I fell behind in from an carly age, however math and seience were two of my stronger subjects. T! ‘was a result of a problem that | had carried. with me since th. Up until Sth grade when I took a visit to the doctor, I was a very slow reader and my writing and handwriting was atrocious. This was all do to an eye issue | had. I was bornCanale 2 ‘with a condition ealled Strabismus, which is defined as “a disorder in which both eyes do not line up in the same direction, so they do not look at the same object atthe same time.” Itis commonly referred to as “crossed eyes? (Medline Plus.org) + \ pre posal This played a huge factor in my study habits and ability to read and write from an extremely young age. Not only did I read multiple grade levels bchind my current grade, | also could not finish work on time. Today the problem has since been corrected, but there was still a Jot of work to be done in order to catch up with all of my classmates,Canale 3 Work sited "Strabismus: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia.” U.S National Library of Medicine. US. National ibrary of Medicine, n.d. Web. 01 Sept. 2015.