The Long Run By Dana Giona Summary

Literature in general is something that isn't taken to seriously but it is something that builds up our knowledge in life and teaches us new ideas on how we see this world. The author of this passage, Dana Giona’s, persuades his audience easily by explaing them how literature nowadays is something to strong to ignore. Mainly because the effect this could have on our society is to terrible to find out. We tend to see our society as on going and smart in our health and economic ways, but how would we even be succesful in this without having any idea on how to approach these types of situations. Dana persuades his audience by warning them by pulling out real life problems the decline of literature can have on us in the long run, “The decline of literary reading foreshadows serious long-term social and economic problems, -- but addressing the issue will require the leadership of politicians and the buisness community as well…”. Giving real life proof to the reader on what could happen to our overall economic and social ways is something they could
Persuasively Dana works excellent in this paragraph due to the fact that he finds it fascinating the amount of young people that aren't civically engaged than those who take in literacy as their norm, and how just by reading can change our social interactions, “ declining rates of literacy reading coincide with the levels of historical and political awareness among young people. -- One reason for the higher social and cultural interactions may lie in the kind of civic and historical knowledge that comes with literary reading…”. WHat comes from this evidence is to show how the decline of literary reading truly shows a negative impact on society but how if read our social and civic interactions change