Learning scenario
Comic books, early on, and novels played a big part of my childhood learning into my young adult years. My inspired imagination grew as a teenager and a young man through what I was reading. I grew to love “super-powered” characters and magical characters that authors created in fictional worlds. The publisher Marvel often created flawed and highly relatable characters, and through this medium, I connected to new ideas expressed through literature.
My involvement intensified with fictional worlds as I read J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, a series of books that I found, “Doc Savage” and classic literature by Charles Dickens. All of this sparked my imagination and even my choice of friends. The friends that I made oftentimes were like me—into these characters and these stories. The relationships that I made were based around discussing values and ethics from these stories, and the differences between right and wrong. We interpreted the real world oftentimes by what we read, and compared it with what we saw. As a result, we learned the ideas of learning, respect, wisdom, courage, integrity, honesty, heroism, loyalty, persistence, and even humility.