If You Give A Mouse A Cookie: A Literary Analysis

“So you’ll read to him from one of your books, and he’ll ask to see the pictures. When he looks at the pictures, he’ll get so excited he’ll want to draw one of his own.” This quote is from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff, and my first memory of exposure to the written word. My parents would read this to me at night before going to bed. This is when I realized that reading and writing are important pieces of the life puzzle, and are very important in building a strong foundation. Even the mouse knew it was important and would be hungry for more. But in today’s society actual hand-written books are being replaced with virtual literature. The information is still the heart of media, but the presentation is very different,

In middle school, I was given several assignments similar to the one Mrs. Giet had given. However, these subsequent assignments did not have the restriction of using only books for research. My next activities allowed use of the Internet for gathering data. When I set out on my quest for information, I would begin with my assigned topic, but there was so much information coming my way. For example, I was searching for information on “World War 2” and that search led me to a link about the Cold War, which then led me down the path to the race to space between Russia and America. So much information available, and it was very intriguing. This was the first time I can strongly remember using the Internet to look up information that I was interested in. It was not just an assignment for school, but rather something just for

It can be collected in mass quantities with the click of a mouse. Prior to the World Wide Web, if you saw or heard something you wanted to know more about, you would have to look it up in a book and more than likely that would lead you to another book, and so forth; much like the Internet leads you to multiple sites. The Internet has paved the road of curiosity for me, making it easy to learn more than I would ever be able to with the use of books alone. Clearly everything has its advantages and disadvantages. It is amazing and wonderful to have so much information readily available, but it is easy to manipulate information on the Internet. That is not the case with a written version of any account. Also it takes a long time to get the information into circulation via a hard copy to the world. Overall, the Internet has proven to be a valid source of information, as long as you are willing to verify on multiple sites the data you are looking for. In the spirit of giving a mouse a cookie, the Internet provides as many cookies as I could ever