Literature Influencing The Future Research Paper

Literature Influencing the Future Perfect World

Literature is like a piece of bread, and the reader a toaster: once the bread meets the toaster, it is never the same again. Some of the many authors who are the “bread” are Anne Bradstreet in the poem “Upon the Burning of our House July 10th 1666”, Thomas Jefferson writing The Declaration of Independence, and Benjamin Franklin when he writes his autobiography “Moral Perfection”. The primary reason of the authors creating this “toast” is to influence the future because the authors wish to create a non problematic world and change readers forever like the toaster changes bread forever.

The authors light up the idea by putting in their own ideas, but also ideas from other literature. When criticizing

Many authors that were around during war time often wrote about their experiences to influence the future. One example is when the vietnamese writer Michele Janette wrote about her time, saying “Other literature seeks to preserve Vietnamese culture for future generations”(Janette). She is stating that without literature, the entirety of the Vietnamese culture and way of life could be wiped away from the face of the Earth, and the literature helps preserve it and will inspire future generations that will read it. All it would take is an instant and the Vietnamese culture could be demolished, however the metaphoric flame of literature can not be put out, and will survive even long after its writers are gone. Furthermore, future generations will be learning about their faith by the aspiring authors of the past, writing to influence the

Jefferson writes,“We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal...That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted”(Jefferson 92,93). At this time in the colonies, the colonists have had enough of the King’s tyranny, implying that in their version of a perfect world they are free of Britain's rule. In this situation, Jefferson is the metaphorical bread, and America being the toaster, and once Jefferson makes his impact America will never be the same. Later in the declaration Jefferson suggests “They to, have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity”(95). The British shattered the colonial idea of a perfect world, therefore Jefferson took matters into his own hands and wrote this document to create his idea of a perfect