Doors to Reading

 By: Cristina Vizcaino

Ecuador is piece of earth that has a lot of qualities, one of them is the literature I would like to quote Jorge Icaza a writer who describe the beautiful of Ecuador “One isn’t what one is by what one writes, but by what ones has read” this is a phrase that represent exactly what I want to talk in this text. Do you know that the Ecuadorian just read half of book at the year?

For start, the literature is an important part of a country because this mean a big contribution of knowledge, for that reason on April 23^th Unesco declared the international day of book, taking like inspiration to Miguel de Cervantes, William Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. In addition, read has a lot of benefices such as increased the mental alertness, this improve the capacities of your brain, also, it reduces the stress that your day can has making feel you better, as well as, the visual system makes a type of train when you read and improve the speed how you read, too read books gives you interesting topic for talk with friends or family. Indeed, according with CERLALC the percentage of people that read in Ecuador is 43% and this percentage isn’t good because all that people just read a half of a book or two books in a year compared with Spain where the 92% of the population read more than two books at the year, the propose of show this is for reflect and star read more, you who are read this take a book, newspaper, or a magazine and read about the world that around yourself.

In short, we talk about the importance for read for you and for the world, the benefices that gives read a little be of any topic are for your brain, visual system, also for communication abilities that this gives you. In Ecuador to promote the reading, it created a plan of reading that consist in open a feria each December 6^th with more than 25 editorials of the country that contribute to youngest people with books a lot of genders. So what are you waiting for read? The reading doesn’t have a limit of age, anyone can inside in the world of books to know different opinion, interesting facts or just a story that fly your mind, so lost the fear of books and read!

 

Bibliografía

Criollo. F (2017). Reading in Ecuador. Take of: https://www.elcomercio.com/tendencias/lectura-ecuador-libro-habitos-cultura.html

Carrete. V (2017). Benefits of Reading. Take of: https://www.universia.net/es/actualidad/orientacion-academica/cuales-son-beneficios-leer-1058932.html