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Summary Of Why Literature Matter By Dana Gioia

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To respond to the decreased interest young Americans have in literature, author Dana Gioia portrays why literature is important to young individuals in the article “Why Literature Matters”. Gioia doesn’t just give solutions or answers to problems. She reinforces her argument by using factual evidence and fear to scare and wake up the readers about the future of America. Initially, Gioia starts off her argument by stating that “The most worrisome finding” -in a study commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts-was the “declining percentage of Americans reading literature” (Gioia 1). She starts off with this to show that the decline is very troubling; This is mainly due to the fact that it is predominantly young adults where the decline
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