My reaction of this book “Habits of the Heart” when I first bought it was that it would be very hard to read because the book has over three hundred pages filled with very microscopic typed words. When the instructor first assigned our assignment for this book, I was shocked because we had only two weeks to read the book and do the assignment. Two weeks to read the whole book, I knew that I …showed first 75 words of 650 total…

…showed last 75 words of 650 total…development of ourselves. This book even shows examples of history’s individualism and American life and how it links to modern American individualism. Another reaction that I had was that I felt bad for myself because I didn’t read the whole book because I only had two weeks to read it. But I think that I got the point of this book even after reading only six of the eleven chapters in this book.