In a well-structured paragraph, describe a personal connection you have with a text of your choosing. Be sure to name the text and its author. Then tell three or more ways that you personally connect to the text.

This question requires a personal answer. I will give you an example so that you can relate it to a story that you have read.

Explanation:

 The text I choose is "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky.

I have had a special connection with this story since in many ways I resemble the protagonist. His name is Charlie, and he is a person who finds it difficult to make friends and has problems being in society since he is very shy and is usually afraid.

He has suffered traumas that prevent him from being more outgoing with his peers. I felt identified since many times fear also makes me be a shy person who sometimes prefers to "be invisible".

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.