In the essay “How to Read like a Writer” by Mike Bunn starts talking about how he was a college graduate and was working at a Palace Theatre owned by Andrew Lloyd Webber. He then goes on about how he struggled to read in the environment (theatre). He then states “I began to realize that the way I was reading—one word at a time—was exactly the same way that the author had written the text. I realized writing is a word-by-word, sentence-by-sentence process. The intense concentration required to read in the theater helped me recognize some of the interesting ways that authors string words into phrases into paragraphs into entire books” (72). As he goes further on talking about how writing consists of a series of choices which leads me to my connection to this article. Just how Mike Bunn talks about how writing can be, so you read it word by word or phrase by phrase it’s just like how we decide to live our lives. When we are young, we live day by day because at that young of age we don’t have anything to worry about except when to be outside to meet up/play with our friends. But when we get to our teens and we get into more and more activities, sports, clubs, etc. we tend to live our lives “phrase by phrase” or in other words week by week because we have to get certain things done on certain days, so we have time for our planned activities that you can’t miss. Once you get out of high school it’s like we “string words into phrases into paragraphs into entire books” (72). We have to combine what we have learned and went through to create our own book and to tell the younger generations what we have learned and to help them out if their going through something that you’ve experienced because in the end of my life I want to be remembered as someone who helped others when I had my own problems and things to do and that I went out of my way to help other succeed in life as a whole, not as a person who struggled to find themselves in high school and who got into trouble because I was surrounding myself by the wrong people and it just took time to find who my real friends were and who was there when no one else was.