While people participate in various methods of everyday reading and writing, there are extensive benefits to be gained from extending the experience to apply these abilities to literature. In the beginning chapter of Literature: A Portable Anthology, third edition the benefits of reading, analyzing, and writing about literature is explored, while also explaining literature class expectations, at a college or university level. Reading literature expands horizons by exposing readers to various perspectives, locations, and interactions, which molds opinions, attitudes, and behaviors. Taking this a step further to include analysis of the reading serves to train the brain to contemplate information and expand attention spans. Finally, writing about
The Pakistan Partition, in 1947, generated a great divide within cultures and families. In “When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine,” Jhumpa Lahiri transcribes a short story about a man isolated from his family by depicting the aspects of symbolism, intrinsic first person point of view, and the theme of loneliness created by simple word choice structure. Jhumpa Lahiri incorporates her style, in this short story, with symbolism to synthesize two feelings of the main character, Lilia. In How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas Foster states, “Oh, sure, there are some symbols that work straightforwardly: a white flag means, I give up, don’t shoot” (98). With this piece of information, it is best to say that Lahiri is using the candy as a symbol
Depending on the reader's interests, some might or might not find Edmundson's observations on the value of reading and critical thinking, as well as his conviction that literature can foster empathy, curiosity, and a deeper understanding of the world around us, to be insightful. His thoughts on how education shapes one's identity and values, as well as his advice to students to follow their passions and dreams, may pique the interest of
“Americans aren’t good readers”-Daniel Willingham. But are they? Daniel Willingham wrote the article “How to Get Your Mind to Read” to inform people about a problem in American schools: reading comprehension. He uses reasoning to explain that people don’t comprehend what they are reading because they don’t know anything about what they are reading.
Don’t judge a book by its cover, which is the cliche saying. Reading a book and retaining the knowledge given is important for any society. When one reads, they retain knowledge from the book, newspaper, or article that can be crucial to a society’s success. There are many ways one can retain knowledge. The most crucial thing for a society’s survival is reading.
The article “ Why Literature Matters” is about how lack of reading can and will affect our future society. In the article it also talks about how lack of reading affects getting a job, going out to events, and having a more creative mind. The author did research and brings up facts and evidence, and he talks about how the future society will lose skills and be less productive. Dana Gioia uses facts from his research to tell us the readers what has happened in the past years due to lack of reading. From the research he did he said, “The most worrisome finding in 2002 study, however, is the declining percentage of Americans, especially young adults, reading literature.”
Science has proven that reading can provoke positive changes in us as human beings. Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the article ‘Your Brain on Fiction’ published on March 17, 2012. Annie explains how researchers have discovered that reading can initiate different parts of the brain, this is the reason why sometimes literature can make the reader so engaged and attached to a piece of writing. Research also explains how reading has the ability to produce activity in our brain’s motor cortex. Finally, Annie explains how reading fictional pieces can change how you interact with other individuals.
In response to our society not reading literature as much as they should, writer Dana Gioia shows us the importance of reading as a society, he illustrates this in his article “Why Literature Matters”. He archives his argument by using cause and effect, persuasion, personal anecdotes, and by using research by scientists. Dana Gioia starts his story with a personal anecdote- “ In 2001 the National Association of Manufacturers” did many studies on two different types of people in the work area; such as working full time and getting paid hourly. The study showed the number of people who weren't taught reading comprehension was higher than the ones who were.
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” (George R.R. Martin). A reader can experience many new and different cultures by reading a variety of different books. The reader is also able to experience the lives of the all the contrasting characters and thus live a thousand lives unlike someone who never reads.
This belief appears misleading, because deep reading can be accomplished with any text, as long as there is an ambition for the text, there are always at least one if not numerous hidden mysteries within the text for the reader to notice and mull over. An example of this is in the social media platform, known as Facebook. People can update their page with the latest occurrences along with explaining the astonishing altercations they’ve encountered through their day, only for people to comment and ponder the actual timeline of events that had occurred. Deeper reading is present on almost any social media
The study of literature is also another topic that relies of an individual to have educated the intellectual and emotional aspects of their bodies to master their imagination. When someone has developed this ability they are able to fully understand literature. For example, Achilles the typical hero archetype is explained by Frye as “Achilles is greater than any man could ever be (Frye, 24).” A regular person would be in awe of Achilles great prowess in battle and would use their imagination to become the mighty Achilles in their dreams. The individual with an educated imagination on the other hand, would be relate to Achilles strengths while at the same time identify with his weaknesses as we humans share them as well.
This outlook is reflected in national surveys, the number of literary non-readers in the United States is starting to outweigh the number of readers and, this has slowly been proceeding over the past 20 years (Gioia 421). Reading is a fundamental part of life. It’s a major way of expression, imagination, learning and being the best person
In his essay, German Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer wrote “... Much reading robs the mind of all elasticity”, making the claim that it is better for a man to experience the world himself rather than through a book. I agree with Schopenhauer’s claim because people need experience to form their own opinions and be free from outside influences. First, people need to have experiences in other to form ideas and opinions that are their own. Reading the works of others is an excellent way to become learned, but “learning makes most men more stupid and foolish then they are by nature."
Why We Read Charles William Eliot once said, “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” Since Aristotle was born in 384 B.C.E scholars have debated as to why one should read literature, and what kind of asset literature brings. Some say literature is powerful enough to change one's life around for the good, others argue that literature is political and is used to control society, some even believe that literature can be radical and even used to end sexism. However, it is my belief that literature can be used as a tool to better one's life and even society, if one were to choose to use literature as a constructive tool. While several literary
While reading the article, “What Reading Does for the Mind” by Anne E. Cunningham and Keith Stanovich, I could not decipher some of the complex academic text. At first I did not know how to approach a challenging informational text, but as I was halfway through the academic reading I started to understand a little bit more. Ms. Jones helped my peers and I to break the text paragraph by paragraph in order to read the text with facility and intellectual engagement. As an academic reading, the text was very informative and long. It had complex vocabulary that needed to be searched up.
