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4. I believe it took me a day. Then, aloud, I read back, to myself, everything I'd written in the notebook. Over and over, aloud, to myself, I read my own handwriting.

3. In my slow and terrible handwriting, I copied into my notebook everything printed on that page, down to the punctuation marks.

6. I was so fascinated that I went on - I copied the dictionary's next page. And the same experience came when I studied that. With every succeeding page, I also learned of people and places and events from history. Actually, the dictionary is like a small encyclopedia. Finally the dictionary's A section had filled a whole notebook - and I went on into the Bs. Between what I wrote in my notebook, and writing letters, during the rest of my time in prison I would guess I wrote a million words.

7. I suppose it was inevitable that as I learned more and more words, I could for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying. Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something: from then until I left prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading on my bed. There was nothing you could have done to take me away from my books. Between my correspondence, my visitors, and my reading of books, months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life.

5. I woke up the next morning, thinking about those words - very proud to realize that not only had I written so much at one time, but I'd written words that I never knew were in the world. Moreover, with a little effort, I also could remember what many of these words meant. I reviewed the words whose meanings I didn't remember.

2. I saw that the best thing I could do was get hold of a dictionary - to study, to learn some words. I spent two days just turning the pages of the dictionary. I'd never realized so many words existed! I didn't know 'which' words I needed to learn. Finally, just to start some kind of action, I begin copying.

1. It had really begun back in the Charlestown Prison, when Bimbi first made me envy his great knowledge. Bimbi had always taken charge of any conversation he was in, and I had tried to copy him. But every book I picked up had very few sentences which didn't contain words that might as well have been in Chinese. When I just skipped those words, of course, I really ended up with little idea of what the book said. So I had come to the Norfolk Prison Colony still going through only book-reading motions. Pretty soon, I would have quit even these motions, unless I had received the motivation I did.

He reads things that he writes again.

He writes everything on that page into his notebook.

He realizes watching a dictionary is best thing. And He realizes fact that a number of word exists.

He prouds himself because He realizes fact that he written words that he never knew were in the world. And He is happy in the fact that he can remembers the words with a little effort.

He thinks the dictionary similliar to a small encyclopedia. Eventually, He filled A section of the dictionary in his notebook. And He was writing B section of the dictionary.

He envys Bimbi's knowledge. Thus He tried to copy Bimbi's ability. And He going through only book-reading motions. But, Soon, He stops read the book.

He learns plenteous word. He begin to understand what the book is saying. He thinks reading a dictionary can imagines new world.

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