Reading Among Youth
CABRAL, ALYANNA ANGELINA M.
Argumentative Essay
Communication I (TFD2)
October 16, 2012
Technology and Movies Help in Promoting Reading among the Youth of Today
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into t he other room and read a book.” (Groucho Marx). Upon reading this quotation from Marx, I felt that he is trying to make technology sound as the mortal nemesis of reading. If I were to choose between watching T.V. and reading a book, I would choose to watch T.V. right away. But if I put more thought into choosing, I would prefer reading a book. I just came to this realization that when I read a book, a novel for example, my mind is free to imagine. If I want to make myself the leading lady in the novel I am reading, and the leading man to be Zac Efron, I could do that.
When we read novels, everything in the story is in our favor, but when it comes to the story itself, we cannot change anything. This capability of us to freely imagine is not present when watching T.V. It is because when watching T.V., images that we see directly sinks in into our minds. In a soap opera, if you see that the leading man is Jericho Rosales, can you easily replace the leading man with Zac Efron by just using your imagination ? You cannot since the image of
Jericho Rosales is stuck in your mind.
In a fight between television and reading, obviously, I am now in the side of reading. But it does not mean that I am against technology. People always say that technology took away reading from the youth. But is technology that of a big hindrance to reading? Has technology done nothing to somehow influence the youth into reading?
If I compared the youth today from the youth before, I can say that the youth before is more into reading than the youth today. Before, when radio was the only device as the source of
entertainment in every household, when only rich people had televisions in their homes, and when average
Argumentative Essay
Communication I (TFD2)
October 16, 2012
Technology and Movies Help in Promoting Reading among the Youth of Today
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into t he other room and read a book.” (Groucho Marx). Upon reading this quotation from Marx, I felt that he is trying to make technology sound as the mortal nemesis of reading. If I were to choose between watching T.V. and reading a book, I would choose to watch T.V. right away. But if I put more thought into choosing, I would prefer reading a book. I just came to this realization that when I read a book, a novel for example, my mind is free to imagine. If I want to make myself the leading lady in the novel I am reading, and the leading man to be Zac Efron, I could do that.
When we read novels, everything in the story is in our favor, but when it comes to the story itself, we cannot change anything. This capability of us to freely imagine is not present when watching T.V. It is because when watching T.V., images that we see directly sinks in into our minds. In a soap opera, if you see that the leading man is Jericho Rosales, can you easily replace the leading man with Zac Efron by just using your imagination ? You cannot since the image of
Jericho Rosales is stuck in your mind.
In a fight between television and reading, obviously, I am now in the side of reading. But it does not mean that I am against technology. People always say that technology took away reading from the youth. But is technology that of a big hindrance to reading? Has technology done nothing to somehow influence the youth into reading?
If I compared the youth today from the youth before, I can say that the youth before is more into reading than the youth today. Before, when radio was the only device as the source of
entertainment in every household, when only rich people had televisions in their homes, and when average