How Long to Read Being Here

How Long Does it Take to Read Being Here?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 30 minutes to read Being Here by Jaime Espiritu

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Nicholas, at twelve years old, came to the U.S. with his family. He learned what was fact and fable about America, and then some. A black man, a well-educated fellow engineer, tells him: "I do not believe in integration, because it is unnatural, and wrong." At a park bench, he tells a homeless man who was once a member of the middle-class and who, through circumstances, became an acquaintance: "You were born and raised here. Many people throughout the world could only wish that had happened to them. What happened to you?" "Everybody has a different story," the bum tells him. "You have an America to go to. I don't. I'm already here!" A natural-born American of Japanese descent confessed to him: "I'm going back to Japan. I am not accepted in this American society as it is now. I do not belong here. I must therefore go to where I belong." After twenty years, these, along with a stunning discovery about his family's coming to America posed a daunting challenge to what Nicholas has affirmed in himself about what America stands for, and to the questions: "What is an American? Who is an American? and What makes an American?" ***Here is a book about us all in America. A book that every American and would-be American must read, if for nothing more than a chance to respond, let alone find an answer to those questions in the quiet of one's thoughts.

How long is Being Here?

Being Here by Jaime Espiritu is 330 pages long, and a total of 82,500 words.

This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 101% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Being Here Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 30 minutes to read Being Here aloud.

What Reading Level is Being Here?

Being Here is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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