Notes On Importance Of Literature And Literature

Ever since I was in elementary school, I have had a strong fascination with literature. Overtime, I had a plethora of books lining my bookcases and barely had room for any more. Reading was a necessity to me and it still is to me today. I eat, sleep, and breath literature because I feel like it’s essential to my academic career. Literature does many wonderful things like, teach me about life lessons, transport me to a new world that I have only dreamed about going to, and discover new vocabulary.

In Why Literature Matters Author Dana Gioia expresses and supports his opinion on why schools should support and teach arts and literature. Gioia shows the rapid decline in Americans not reading literature anymore, he shows the consequences you will face in the real world, like when you try to get a job. Gioia uses facts and statistics throughout the essay, as well as appealing to your patriotism.

Though many people nowadays disregard the usefulness of literature in modern society I belong to the opposite sect of folk. Reading and literature is more than just words and writeing, its ways for the dead to speak and advise those to come through understanding of common feelings. Whether the author meant to mean something through metaphor or more literally is not important, what is important is that us as the readers are able to communicate and interpret needed information from the subject and author. Something that I sometimes think is lacking in todays society is not just this communictation but understanding. Furthermore reading it gives us a way to understand and invest in lives other than ourselves. Secondly reading and understanding what we read allows us to feel empathetic towards the subject thus allowing us to share our own story of feeling and ideas. This is

* We’ve all read this famous French folktale about a young girl dressed in red and the big bad wolf who disguised as the girl’s grandmother so he could eat her.

Reading and writing have played monumental roles in the game called my life. For as long as I can remember, I have been reading or writing, whether it was showcasing my reading skills to my grandparents when I was six, or teaching myself calligraphy when I was thirteen. English literature and all the things it encompasses has always mattered to me, and (almost always) has been a source of my happiness. According to Dana Gioia from “Why Literature Matters, ” more and more young adults are starting to feel the opposite—that reading literature is not interesting and doesn’t matter. “During the past quarter century...the interest young Americans showed in...literature…[has] diminished.” To support this claim that literature matters, Gioia

Being provided with amusement or enjoyment is important and is essential for being content in life. Entertainment in general is fascinating; such as movies, television shows, video clips on YouTube, music, comics and other ridiculous things that people do in this world, not only entertain us but also teach concepts and morals either directly or indirectly. Books are either entertaining to some or are just objects that make life stale and boring, but yet these insignificant objects can provide more entertainment while also allowing cognitive thinking skills and learning universal truths that teach life lessons. People have different opinions towards books and how to utilize them for the generation of today and if reading novels is even relevant for students in the future. Although reading a novel provides the reader a better understanding of its concepts, it is not necessary or important to read an entire novel to understand the book.

Literature is very important from the start of your life time all the way to the end of your life time. You use literature in all career fields the career field I will use it in is CSI law enforcement. Also literacy is important to everyone I will explain how later.

When she warns her of the path, she tells Red “Behave yourself on the way, and do not leave the path, or you might fall and break the glass, and then there will be nothing for your grandmother.”. She doesn’t tell her that she can get seriously injured and that there is evil in the woods. So, in result, when Red is on her way to her grandmother's house, she meets the wolf and since she does not know what a wicked animal he is, she is not afraid of him. The wolf convinces her to stray off the path to pick flowers, and since she is only a girl, she loves the idea. When she finally arrives at her grandmother's house, she can sense that something is off and she even says “Oh, my God, why am I so afraid? I usually like it at grandmother's." Nevertheless, she is not aware of the evil and is a little girl, so she ventures in like she normally would. She doesn’t stand a chance when the wolf eats her up, and would not have been able to defend herself. Later, after the huntsmen cuts Red and her grandmother out, Red thinks quickly and gathers large stones and wills the wolf's stomach with them so that he will not be able to attack or run away. She is learning how to be self-sufficient because she had almost gotten

Fairy tales are often retold and revamped to make them more relatable to a new audience. Little Red Riding Hood is a story that has found itself retold many times. From her being saved by a huntsman in Grimm’s Fairy Tales to her being completely devoured and never heard from again in Perrault to warn children of the danger of those who may be perceived as kind but are truly cruel. For Angela Carter it is an adult revamp on a childhood classic. Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves” is the story of prey becoming a predator.

Little Red Riding Hood was fooled by the wolf, impersonating her grandmother. From the tale, one can depict that even children, well-raised and attractive, listen to strangers. The young girl in Carter’s tale shows a sense of intelligence because right when she arrives she knows something is wrong yet, undresses herself. Like said before, the young girl is more sexually ready, foreshadowing that her virginity may be lost by the end of the story. She reverses the attraction, mesmerizing the wolf on page 117, “small breasts gleamed as if snow had entered the room”.

Literature is more than stories or collections of words. It has the ability to inspire a transformation of an individual even without a realization. Behind every work of literature there is a deeper meaning and a clearer reality. Often, authors will both intentionally and unintentionally disguise wisdom within a work that helps with life situations and mends the soul. It opens a door to a realm of understanding that may not have been experienced before.

Literature is a powerful tool that has sculpted my mind and the person I have presently become. Parallels of issues could be drawn from the novels and other works of literature I have read to present day, despite the age of the works of the literature. Ultimately, literature has taught me many life lessons and helped me perceive ideas such as conformity and happiness in a new light.

In my opinion, literature is valuable, especially about the things we learned about because learning about tricksters and how they came to be, Native American myths and legends, as of me, I am Alaskan Native. These connect with who I am, and who my ancestors were. Learning about these drew me closer to my native culture, because I have never been told these kinds of stories. I have helped out my dad’s crew with whaling, doing all these games for Piuragaaqta, gone hunting. I think these are what brings you closer to who you are and who you are to become. Literature, books, writing, these can all bring you closer to family, but you can also learn from it. You can learn more about who you are just by reading these short novels or long books. Literature has shown me more of who I am. Yes I have been taught, but at the beginning of the year, I wouldn’t have known a couple things because I wouldn’t have learned about them. Learning about literature in Alaska than in the lower 48’s can be different because here in Alaska, you are taught about Alaskan Native myths, legends, and sometimes facts about what happened because that has a bigger impact in Alaskan students than them learning about the French and German people and how they live in their

The Red Riding tales are retelling of the ordinary fairy tales with Red as childlike, dependent, and vulnerable. On the other hand, the wolf is self-centered, violent, greedy to play on Red's purity. The Red is mostly objectified as a prey. Although Angela Carter's "The Company of Wolves" is similar to The Red Riding tales, a nameless young girl in this tale is depicted somewhat more strong-minded and independent than Red. Despite Carter reinforces the stereotype of traditional roles, the end of story shows a power shift and raises a question about female liberation coming only through temptation and sexuality.

Jackson Jackson is an intelligent, articulate homeless man of Native American ancestry. He acutely feels the injustices of colonization, even describing his physical appearance as tainted, because he looks like a 'before Columbus' Indian versus his more magisterial-looking friend. He still has a profound connection to his heritage, as manifested in his desire to win back his grandmother's regalia. He also had a fondness for drinking. Jackson's sense of 'disappearing' relates to the fact that so many Indians in Seattle are homeless, displaced, drunk, and depressed. He feels he has no distinguishing characteristics. People seem to look right through him, and even though he has a moral right to regain his grandmother's regalia, the pawn shop owner refuses to give it back to him, because he knows the law is on his side and will not trust Jackson. Jackson becomes fixated on the notion that he can win back the regalia, and feels he needs to do so like a hero on a quest, rather than filing a complaint through the law.