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Your initial post should be at least 200 words in length, not including references. In your post, answer the following questions:
What does literature offer an individual?
How has the importance of reading changed from earlier eras (pre-digital/audio/visual media) to our present day? Do you think we read differently now than we did in prior generations?
Do you think Clugston?s quote is valid? How have perceptions regarding the value of literature changed, if at all?
What causes people?s perceptions regarding the value of literature to change?
Incorporate readings found in Chapters 1 through 3 to help illustrate the points you make.
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Beginning Our Literary Journey
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Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following:
Identify the different ways in which you connect to literature.
Recognize and utilize explanatory notes to enhance your reading experience.
Discuss the characters and activities presented in the poem “The Red Hat.”
Discuss the characters and activities presented in the short story “A & P.”
Discuss the characters and activities presented in the poem “Oranges.”
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
?Mark Twain,
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Reading literature that tells a story introduces you to an imaginary world. You are pulled away from a living,
breathing world into one that was created in the mind of the author. Its situations and experiences may resemble
ones you are familiar with; many of them may even be based in part on real situations, but they are imaginary?
shaped by the
imagination
of the person who created them.
To experience literature, you must make an intentional decision to turn yourself over to an imaginary realm. How
many times have you heard someone say, “I’m having a hard time getting into this story”? Maybe you’ve said that
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yourself. Although such a comment often suggests that the reader is encountering a dif?icult writing style, it may
also mean that the reader has not made an intentional connection to the imaginary world of literature.
As adults, we are grounded by the demands of our everyday lives, preoccupied with responsibilities and endless
schedules?not to mention university course assignments! So, opting for a full connection to a literary world is
demanding: It requires letting go of things at hand and engaging in imaginary things. It actually requires us to
believe that an imaginary world is possible and to engage in what Coleridge (1817) so famously called “the willing
suspension of disbelief for the moment.” But once we connect, we ?ind ourselves escaping from the routine of our
ordinary lives, caught up in adventure and engaged in the story.
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