Reading Literature

Foster discusses the idea that when two characters eat together, that moment acts as a bonding experience and causes the characters to come together. I had never noticed the significance of a meal between characters before. After reading this chapter, I can think of so many moments in stories when the characters share a meal together to form friendships or come to a peace. In one of my favorite novels, Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, Picoult writes that “Emma Alexis- who was one of the cool, beautiful girls…she rolled her wheelchair right beside Justin. She’d asked him if she could have half of his donut” (367). Splitting the donut between one of the popular girls and one of the quieter, nerdier boys was a representation of the deformation of the high school social classes. After reading this chapter, I could recall the significance of meals together in so many novels and movies but I never noticed this pattern before.

Intertextuality is the ongoing interaction between poems or stories. Romeo and Juliet, and the Titanic are two examples

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are,” (Cooley). Throughout our lives, reading has impacted us in many ways. Often times books give people different perspectives on their lives. People with high stress levels often find comfort in reading books to take their mind off of their concerns. Sometimes, people just need to take a step back from their lives and relax for a while; therefore, reading is a great tool. In fact, all kinds of books have also helped me become a better writer. There are many different books that have impacted me over the years.

a quest has five elements: a quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges and trials during the quest, and a real reason to go there

My experience with literature started when I was in the first grade. My first-grade teacher was named Ms. Young. Every Friday, all the teachers would come together to have story time and read the children a book. I would be so excited for story time because I would sit down with my best friends Ashley and Jordan, and we would listen to the teacher that was assigned to read to us. During story time, all the children would gather around in a big circle and the teacher would be in the center in a big brown rocking chair, and read. Over time in the school year, the children would read bigger and longer books like the Junie B. Jones series, chapter books, and the extreme level, which would be the Harry potter series. Sometimes I would fall asleep because the book that was read was very dull. I remember Ms. Young read to us the “Very Hungary Caterpillar”9 by Eric Carle. I loved that book as a child. It had great illustrations of the caterpillar turning into a butterfly. This book made me love reading for the rest of my life. Now in college, I love to read books. I only

Growing up I was never a big fan of reading, but as I got older I noticed books are very essential. They are filled with adventures and lessons that only exist in wildest imagination. Without books many of us wouldn't know half the things we know today. Books teaches us math , science, history ,and even how to use a computer or how to play a sport. With so many different genres to choose from and millions of books to read , the task of reading can never get boring, especially when you're actively reading

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

In English class during my last year of highschool, I have learned a lot of all these different types of reading. Did I actually read them or did I use all the annotations on line? Well that doesn’t matter does it, the only thing that really matter is that I at least got something out of my English B class. I kinda did, between all the extra hours of homework and the texting in class I should've learned something. Well I did learn that I actually like about three of the stories in this so called literature book, no more or no less just three stories and that's it. The three stories that I found out that I actually like are The Lady of SHALOTT by: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ah, Are You Diggin on My grave by: Thomas Hardy and The Rocking-Horse

Reading and writing about literature can come hand to hand, understanding the initial text that you are reading in your literature is the key to being able to develop a well written paper about the literature. Without understanding the fundamentals that come along with understanding literature, and taking in appropriate steps into developing a understanding of text will result in an easier transition into developing appropriate organized writing about the literature with appropriate details because you are understanding the text being read.

Literature is the main path to life and an opportunity to reflect your own character in many forms of art. Literature has made a major impact on my life as it changed the way I speak, think and express myself. Encountering literature taught me how to develop and improve conceptual skills by reading and writing. These practices helped me experience emotions flowing from the piece of literature through words which then helps me to visualize what is happening in the story. Literature makes me forget about reality only to live in another world in which I get to explore in my mind. These forms of art allow us to illustrate images in our minds and focus on what the piece of literature is trying to tell us and how to relate to it. In addition, literature can convey many

Literary reading has helped me learn the skills of qualitative judgement, empathy, and imagination by allowing me to have a creative outlook and open mind as a read through text.

After reading all of the poems to myself and in different ways when I’m reading “We Real Cool” I feel like a thug siting on the street corner talking to the other kids around the area. Making it feel like those kids are expected to follow in the story tellers footsteps. This poem reads with more of an arrogant tone and seems to try and make themselves feel more important or cool in the tone they read the poem. I also think this poem could be read to people who are possibly even in jail, or in a support group for something, like a way to express that making trouble, skipping school, causing problems and drinking isn’t worth it in the long run.

Dr. Seuss, a well-known writer, said in one of his many books, “The more that you read, the more that you will know. The more that you learn, the more place that you will go.” My greatest passions are art and math but reading, to me at least, is like another world full of wonder, surprises, and mysteries. I will not say that some of the best things I have ever done is thanks to reading because that would be a lie, but I can say that some of the best things happen within the book. There are people in this world that love to read, I enjoy it but maybe not so much as the next person but when I grab a book, sometimes I get so lost in the book that nothing else seems to matter. Getting lost in a book any in a way is like living within the book can just be one of the best escapes from the real world that I have.

Raymond Mar, a psychologist at Your University in Canada and Keith Oatley a professor An The University of Toronto, they both say that “individuals who often read fiction appear to be better able to understand other people, empathies with them and view the world from their perspectives.” I agree that reading certain types of books can help people further understand and see things from a different point of view. Reading helps to open people's eyes and to teach life lessons or to show there are other things to believe in and know other than what they have always been told to know. Getting different types of books, types that are not always the same as the books that you normally read can help you to view things differently. For example from personal experience a new book can help your imagination grow, readings helps me a lot when I need to come up with new ideas for an art class. The new places a book takes you the new images you see while you are reading the new stores you hear and the happy ending your book might have can change the way you are feeling it can brighten up your day.

1. Identify the research problem: In this first phase you consider a research problem based in your interests and in your field.