The short Essay, An Experiment in Criticism, by C.S. Lewis brings to light many new perspectives to how people read and experience literature. Throughout the essay Lewis works to give the message that; how good a book is doesn’t depend on the quality of writing but on the reader. He begins by defining two types of readers- the “literary” and the “non-literary”- which he uses through the rest of his essay to categorize different traits for treating literature.…
Books reflect life. “It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were it books..the same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through radios and televisions, but are not” said Faber. Showing Montag technologies once in the past that are also stories in books. Televisions, phones and radios are used in ways such as making your voice heard. “We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam” said Faber. There isn't room to grow and be free. Everything is being watched and controlled without having a voice. Books reflect life such as the chapter's go by what's next not…
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life…
“Number one: Books have to have to have quality. Number two: One needs leisure to digest it. Number three: One needs the right to carry out actions based on what they have learned from the first and second lesson.”…
The novel, Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, conveys how significant books are to society. The novel portrays a society that has clueless citizens because they lack literature. The government is able to control and manipulate their population because they do not have any access to books. The citizens believe the information the government has gave them without questioning it. Some societies today still cannot have access to books because of their gender, do not have proper education, or other situations. Bradbury reveals how essential books are to developing individual’s mindset and how books can help enlighten society.…
In Patrick Henry’s “Speech in the Virginia Convention,” he remarked, “I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided and that is the lamp of experience.” Libraries are built on books, schools rely on them. Millions of people have written them to share knowledge and experiences with others. The value of a book is immeasurable, yet some things just can’t be learned by reading books alone.…
“Didn’t i realize that reading would open up whole new worlds? A book could open doors for me. It could introduce me to people and show me places I never imagined existed. She gestured towards the bookshelves . (Bare-breasted African women danced, and the shiny hubcaps of automobiles on the back covers of the geographic gleamed in my mind.) I listened with respect. But her words were not very influential. I was thinking then of another consequence of literacy, one i was too shy to admit but nonetheless trusted. Books were going to make me “educated.” That confidence enabled me, several months later, to over come my fear of the silence.…
Books, they promote thought and spark conversations. A book is a portal to a new world, full of new ideas and adventures awaiting a unsuspecting reader. However, one must beware of their aversive powers: “What traitors books can be! You think they’re backing you up, and then they turn…
But this is just a tool of power as the deliberate dumbing down of the population; to keep them happy and ignorant. Captain Beatty reasons that a book “breaches a man’s mind” and conflicts with society’s purpose; “we must all be alike.” This indicates the turning point of the conversation and why the motivation for keeping people ignorant becomes obvious. It has a sinister overtone suggesting oppression. Through Captain Beatty’s voice, readers sense the irony and the issues that burning books raises; the loss of individuality and the ability to question. This allows the authority to bend the society to its will without resistance and promotes the reasoning: without books which “breach a man’s mind”, we are equal therefore, “happy”. Captain Beatty goes on to say: “Don’t we give them fun? That’s all we live for, isn’t it?” He believes the meaning of our lives is “pleasure” and “titillation” and defends the “culture” of the society because it “provides plenty of these”. Life is not just limited intellectual lives and hedonistic…
When the world is at its worst, we as humans tend to lean on literature. It gives us hope and understanding of our lives. It teaches us that we are not alone. Everything we face another is facing it with us. Works of literature hold the truth of our past, present and future. If we look at the content and theme of similar works such as “A Rose for Emily” by William Faukner, and “Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It outlines the ways of our own lives and has us connect to the stories. Despite their obvious differences in content and theme, “A Rose for Emily” and “Yellow Wallpaper” both ultimately show our own lives mirrored to them, and tell the story of the human experience.…
Books provide a zest for life in all its dimensions: tragic, dull, triumphant and joyous. It is good for mankind to share…
Books created worlds we’ve never seen, they questioned our philosophical purpose, and they answered it. From manuals to stories, books have been handed down as a collection of knowledge; but for the first time in millennia we’re raising entire generations who have never read a novel, short story or even a poem. David McCullough (2008), author of “The Love of Learning” defines for us the difference between facts and wisdom. Data is irrelevant until we have made the judgment to make it important and learn from it. We cannot memorize facts and call ourselves learned; we must look a layer deeper and find what the facts mean to us. “Learning is acquired mainly from books, and most readily from great books.” (McCullough, 2008, p. 2) Without books we are only being fed data, numbers and words without any true meaning. (McCullough,…
(15) “There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing” (Part 1, p. 51). (16) This curiosity and longing lead Guy toward books. (17) He begins to see the cracks in society and wants to understand. (18) “Nobody listens any more. . . . I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense” (Part 2, p. 82). (19) He feels lonely and…
book, magazine, newspaper or online. If you carry a poem in your wallet and you look at it once a year, we count you. If you have just finished Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks in German for the third time, or you’ve read one page of a Harlequin Romance and given up because it’s too hard, we count you as equals. We are very egalitarian! What you see for the first time in American history is that less than half of the U.S. adult American population is reading literature. I’m going to talk about what the causes of the problem are, and then I’ll talk about the consequences and the solutions. To go into the data a little big further, we see that we’re producing the first generation of educated people, in some cases college graduates, who no longer become lifelong readers. This is disturbing for reasons above and…
emily instigates the avid poetry-lovers through this poem to take on poetry for the pleasure of reading which carries you to distant places imagined by the personna.it is a piece of provocation for the poem lovers who love to read.i think it is the best method to read a poet's mind.follow the piece of imagery one has used to understand the poem.this method works if someone wishes to lay in trance and go in some other 3rd world.Coming back to the poem,a book is the best and most viable solution or alternative to flit or cruise rather than a ship.it is somewhat close to sleep-walking.emily further goes on to say that nomore war-horses are there which could carry someone to far-away places.The pages of a book are inexpensive and they can carry one to distant places with their dancing text in comparison to those expensive horses.she gives a clear indication of her feelings towards the oppressed class.furher on she gives an opportunity to the poors who can easily through the lines of book traverse here and there without being charged a single penny.finally she ends saying that…