Pretty Little Lias

Literature; it has compelled us, entertained us, educated us, and drove us to madness. It has served as life instruction, by using the characters as the lesson plan. It is sometimes blunt, sometimes ugly, and in Truman Capote’s case, is so gruesome that we do not dare forget it.

Throughout this course, I have discovered that literature is more than just words being brought together by an author to form an emotionally charged story. Literature provides an engaging outlet into an imaginary realm to its audience. As the reader is captivated by the story, poem or play, a, emotional connection is established.

Literature is an essential part of the center of a person’s life. It provides a certain assurance and “feeds the soul” of one. Whether it be a book, TV, or even an advertisement, literature exists everywhere. A person is able to develop many skills by studying literature, and expand the horizon of their learning. An immeasurable amount of insight and knowledge can be gained from the study of literature which contributes in providing readers with an understanding of the past, and a philosophical assimilation of the moral behind a writing piece.

In Annie Murphy Paul's "Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer," she tries to persuade the reader of the importance of deep reading. She wrote this article because she heard an argument which she disagreed with and wanted to show her beliefs. Her audience, the readers of Time, are meant to learn about deep reading and its importance to them. Paul's tone is confident, as she speaks about what she thinks and supports it with a lot of evidence. Paul uses many rhetorical devices and appeals in her essay to accomplish her purpose.

Even though some people discount fiction as a sources of learning and think it is just for entertainment sake there is still much to learn from it. Fiction being written by the author will have his or her knowledge mixed into it. Learning from someone else’s prospective will help you solidify what you believe, either by backing it up or challenging it and making your values stronger in the process. In “Telling the Truth in Lies” Virginia Stem Owens says, “Fiction brings us a certain kind of news about the world we can get in no other way, because all other ways are abstract and detached, while fiction’s way is particular.” Fiction can teach the reader to believe and hope for a happy outcome or to protect themselves so they are not hurt by what

author was able to lure his reader's into almost believing the reality created by his imaginative writing.

Dana Gioia persuades her audience through a mix of emotions. With a lack of reading, young adults are missing out on the joys and challenges of literature.They are bypassing the cultural, emotional, and historical benefits of books and works of literature. By doing this, they are damaging their civic, personal, and economic health.

After reading the Harry Potter series, U spent weeks anticipating a letter from a magical school that would reveal that I was in fact a wizard and was invited to attend their classes to learn magic. People tend to enjoy reading fiction so they can live vicariously through the characters in the story. Fiction, despite being “made-up”, often have close similarities to the real world. By taking a closer look at “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury and “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe, one can infer that fiction reveal a significant amount of truths about human nature.

Patricia McCormick believes that everyone should enjoy her books. She feels that “fiction is a very powerful thing and could be very personal if you read it rights”. “I believe that if you're smart enough to understand what the power writing can do, you can read my books.”

Literature is susceptible to misconception. At times, the presentation of content, enticing details, and storyline take away from the morals and ideas being presented in a piece of text. Most times, as a result of focusing on the distracting elements of a novel, audiences fail to recognize the deeper meaning or purpose of why the author choses to include certain sections of a novel. A book’s intention is to accurately express an author’s thoughts, but, many times, the delivery of unfamiliar content results in fear and a lack of understanding from the reader.

The reader wants to live a life in the real world without as many rules and be able to live the way they want, so when the reader reads a book about kids or a man breaking the rules or living a life without rules it intrigues the reader into wanting to read more and that is how it draws them in. The reader finds themselves reading about what they want their lives to be like. When Robert Warren says, “Only then will it satisfy our deepest need--the need of feeling our life to be, in itself, significant.” He states that when people read

As a huge fan of cozy mysteries I found Jeanne’s book delightfully entertaining. With a whole host of characters that are exciting and fun loving. Ally Taylor the divorced mom of seven-year-old Melanie who is dating detective Mark Ryan along with her best friend Lizzie Meade who has been writing a murder mystery that despite her objections is based upon theirs and their friends lives. Nevertheless just as in Lizzie’s book men of Spring Hollow are being killed off. Ally who loves playing amateur sleuth had herself in the midst of the last murder case so much so that the police chief actually thought she did it. Mark keeps telling

Most authors write mysteries not live in them, most authors write about war not fight in it, most authors do not leave theories in their (supposed) death, most authors are not Ambrose Bierce.

When a reader first reads “Gothic Romanticism, their first thought is probably stories such as Dracula and Werewolves, however Gothic Romanticism is much more and can include themes such as horrific themes in a plot or the psychological thinking of a character. Despite the hundred plus years that separate Pretty Little Liars, a modern literary piece centered around four friends and The Picture of Dorian Gray, an older literary piece about a man and his painting, Gothic Romanticism is evident between the two because of the themes explored in the plots such as the psychological effect of guilt, the loss of innocence in key characters such as Emily Fields and Dorian Gray, and the consequences of the negative influence. Pretty Little Liars follows

“If there were no mystery left to explore, life would get rather dull, wouldn’t it?” (Sidney Buchman). There are so many different mysteries in life and the main characters, Emily, Aria, Hanna, and Spencer in the novel Heartless are just realizing how many there are in life. First, they have realizing just being a teenager can have many unknown components in life. They also conceive the fact that they just lost their best friend Ali and still on the hunt to who murdered her. Lastly, “A” is a mysterious person they have yet to figure out the identity of. “A” anonymously sends the teenage girls text messages with clues and secrets that give hints to all their unsolved mysteries. In this book, the four girls believe they have found a dead body in the woods. Later, there is a fire that has spread through the woods near Spencer's house and the girls believe the body has vanished. One last piece of this novel is there high school called Rosewood High School is a major symbol in this book. I will