Jessica Nelson Assignment 4

Studying literature puts new thoughts into your head. You are exposed to new points of view and you make connections to them. There are no ridged rules or logic like in math or science, it’s all emotions and what the reader can create. In that regard it’s a new type of education because you are creating it not just receiving it. It also rounds out education because it is interactive and changes with time. Current events influence the reader and effect how they perceive and judge a text, which can bring past times and the present together to pass on wisdom to a new generation. Literature can be a call to activism that isn’t addressed in any other class. We can’t do anything about math formulas, but what we learn from literature we take into the world and use to pass on to others or to motivate ourselves to change something. Most of all it gives you a window into the time and place it was written and into the author who wrote it and allows you to empathize with them, forming you into a more sympathetic and graceful human.