Ancheta, Anna Ruzzell
Camarao, Maria Ellaine Mae
De Vera, Joshua Jiro
Tamayo, Mae Antonette
Dr. Ignatius Anagbogu
Section 230
Reading, the Most Dangerous Game
By Harold Brodkey
Reading the article about “Reading, the most dangerous game” opens our minds, so that
we can learn so many things just by reading books. However despite that, there is also a negative
side to reading, which is that we can’t stop reading until we finish a book. We forget to go out of
our room, eat, and even sleep. When we read books, we seem to reverse factual things presented
to us just to say that it makes sense when in reality it does not make sense, and by doing that, we
seem to patronize the idea of fraud. In all of the countries, like Europe, it is well known that their
foundation is so deep into their culture. So, there is a chance that when they are reading a book
they aren’t easily influenced because they know about their culture, but for us, we are easily
influenced even by just reading. We easily believe in what they are saying or writing. We are not
looking deeper if there is a truth or not to them.
Reading books are known to have a benefit on a person. However, there is still danger in
reading. As per Harold Brodkey in his article, he said that reading is a dangerous game. the danger
of reading lies in its ability to change the reader because of its ideas that you might absorb while
reading. If a reader is not at risk, he is not reading. And if a writer is not at risk he is not writing.
A good writer will have a connection with its reader when he reads the book. Either he will be in
love, hurt, or have a lot of emotions. Concentration, focus, and understanding is necessary when
you read. So the better the book you read, the more you might get sane with the book. The more
you connect with the book. the more it develops the mind.
The reading made the people believe that they do hold certain perspective and principles
that they defend for years. But when defending these principles will threaten their life, they will
change their principles or perspective respectively. If the book we are reading that does not give
us the feeling of excitement and thrill into reading it more, we are not actually reading. For reading
should move us into places in our minds where want to be. Reading should give us the satisfaction
our soul craves. When we are reading, we have this imaginary commitment to the book—the
events, the setting and most importantly, the characters. It gave us the different moods and
emotions that made us feel what we thought we would not feel because we don’t have any idea
about it. Reading is all about adventure—from your mind to other authors’ mind. It establish
connections of stories where it will put you at risk. A person may use the ideas into new
perspectives that might change their belief and trigger them to ignite the resting fire within. A
person might be longing for love and when he reads a book, he might realize that he doesn’t want
to be in love.
Who knows what can reading affect into one’s life? Reading could save them through a lot
of questions going in their mind and the line from a book might be the answer. Reading is
awakening the deeper voices in our minds that may put us through different risks. It might be a
gun bullet that shoots up right in front of our mind to know something. Indeed, reading is the most
dangerous game for we don’t know what danger it could bring or how that danger will directly
affect us. In my own experience, when I read a book I always wanted to my attention to it like it’s
the only thing I want to do. I laugh with the character in it and I cry with them as well. They are
giving me this kind of new world to live in where I get to see different perspective of a person that
I can relate myself with in a lot of aspects. It simply brings me joy and sadness that I never ask
them to give but that what’s make it a good book. If the book connects with the reader, it is a must
read.