ENG 2100: Writing 1 with Jay Thompson

Ibrahim Rauf, Week 3, Writing Promt

An object that I believe captures my character is a book. The reason why I believe that a book is an object that would best represent myself is that a book is a mystery that unfolds through the pages within. The beginning of a book is a small taste of what the rest of the story holds. The saying goes that “You should not judge a book by its cover”, which is true because the cover is never the perfect representation of what surprises lie within. A book also loses its physical appearance over time and gets various marks as time passes. 

The way that this all represents me is that even if I might look a certain way or act a certain way if a person gets to know me and spends time around me, they would understand the type of person I am. The marks of a book would represent the hardship I have overcome in my life, and that even though things are up and down in my life, I still hold the same value as I always did. A book is something that a person can learn from. I believe with the hardships that I have experienced, even though I’m very young, I can teach others something that they wouldn’t have known before. A book is also something that a person reads to calm themselves down. It also exemplifies how I am an empathetic person who cares about the feelings of others.