I think we all should study world literature at one point of our life.

World literature is not just

about reading a story by one person specific but it is about learning the deeper meaning of
why they wrote it. It is also important to know who the author was and what might had been
the reason the why he or she wrote about the specific topic. There is more to world
literature then just reading a story that someone has created it also gives us the chance to
imagine what it was like in that certain time. Like for example the Author Achebe: Chilkes
school days. The small biography that we read about him helped us to familiarize with what
the story was about and about his personally experience. So in my theory I personaly think
that world literature helps us establish a personal relationship with the author.

Top Ten Reasons Why Students Need More Literature (Not Less)
In uniquely powerful ways, literary study prepares students for richly rewarding and
meaningful lives. No other reading experience or learning activity duplicates this
preparation.
1. Imagination: Reading literature cultivates the imagination. Thats one reason why
tyrants and dictators hate literature, banning or strictly controlling it. From the ancient
Greeks to the present day, cultures steeped in literary study have thrived on creativity
and innovation.
2. Communication: Writing and talking about literature helps prepare students to write
and talk about anything. Not only are they working with words, with carefully considered
language, but they are also considering how different kinds of people think and react to
and understand words.
3. Analysis: Literary workswhether fiction, poetry, drama, creative nonfiction
challenge readers to make connections, to weigh evidence, to question, to notice
details, to make sense out of a rich experience. These analytical abilities are
fundamental life skills.
4. Empathy: Because literature allows us to inhabit different perspectives (Whats it like
to be a teenage girl, a Jew, in Nazi Germany? How would you feel if you thought your
father had been murdered but no one else believed that?), in different times and places,
we learn to think about how other people see the world. We can understand and
persuade and accept and help these others more effectively and fully.

5. Understanding: We think in terms of stories: this happens, and then that happens,
and whats the connection between these events, and what is going to happen next?
People whove experienced more stories are better able to think about actions and
consequences. Experience is the best teacher; literature is the best vehicle for vastly
enlarging our possible experiences.
6. Agility: Literary works often ask us to think in complex ways, to hold sometimes
contradictory, or apparently conflicting ideas in our minds. As brain imaging has shown,
this kind of processing helps us to be more mentally flexible and agileopen to new
ideas.
7. Meaningfulness: Literary works often challenge us to think about our place in the
world, about the significance of what we are trying to do. Literary study encourages an
examined lifea richer life. It provides us with an almost unlimited number of test
cases, allowing us to think about the motivations and values of various characters and
their interactions.
8. Travel: Literature allows us to visit places and times and encounter cultures that we
would otherwise never experience. Such literary travel can be profoundly life-enhancing.
9. Inspiration: Writers use words in ways that move us. Readers throughout the ages
have found reasons to live, and ways to live, in literature.
10. Fun: When students read literature that is appropriate for them, its intensely fun.
Movies are enjoyable, but oftentimes the written version, readers will say, is more
powerful and engrossing. Students who dont find literature to be a whole lot of fun are
almost certainly reading the wrong things (too difficult, too removed from their interests),
and not reading enough (perhaps they are slogging line by line, week by week, through
a text beyond their growing capabilities). When students do discover the fun of
literature, they will read more and more, vaulting forward in verbal skills and reasoning
abilities, and becoming better readers and writers of other kinds of texts (letters,
memos, legal briefs, political speeches, etc.).
Literature is the foundation of life. It places an emphasis on many topics from human tragedies to
tales of the ever-popular search for love. While it is physically written in words, these words come

alive in the imagination of the

mind, and its ability to

comprehend the complexity or simplicity of the text. Literature enables people to see through the
lenses of others, and sometimes even inanimate objects; therefore, it becomes a looking glass into
the world as others view it. It is a journey that is inscribed in pages, and powered by the imagination
of the reader. Ultimately, literature has provided a gateway to teach the reader about life experiences
from even the saddest stories to the most joyful ones that will touch their hearts.
From a very young age, many are exposed to literature in the most stripped down form: picture
books and simple texts that are mainly for the sole purpose of teaching the alphabet etc. Although
these are not nearly as complex as an 800-page sci-fi novel, it is the first step that many take
towards the literary world. Progressively, as people grow older, they explore other genres of books,
ones that propel them towards curiosity of the subject, and the overall book. Reading and being
given the keys to the literature world prepares individuals from an early age to discover the true
importance of literature: being able to comprehend and understand situations from many
perspectives.

Physically speaking, it is impossible to be someone else. It is impossible to switch bodies with

another human being, and it is impossible to completely understand the complexity of their
world. Literature, as an alternative, is the closest thing the world has to being able to understand
another person whole-heartedly. For stance, a novel about a treacherous war, written in the
perspective of a soldier, allows the reader to envision their memories, their pain, and their
emotions without actually being that person. Consequently, literature can act as a time machine,
enabling individuals to go into a specific time period of the story, into the mind and soul of the
protagonist.
With the ability to see the world with a pair of fresh eyes, it triggers the reader to reflect upon
their own lives. Reading a material that is relatable to the reader may teach them morals and
encourage them to practice good judgement. This can be proven through public school systems,
where the books that are emphasized the most tend to have a moral-teaching purpose behind the
story. An example would be William Shakespeares stories, where each one is meant to be
reflective of human nature both the good and bad. Consequently, this can promote better
judgement of situations, so the reader does not find themselves in the same circumstances as
perhaps those in the fiction world. Henceforth, literature is proven to not only be reflective of
life, but it can also be used as a guide for the reader to follow and practice good judgement from.
The world today is ever-changing. Never before has life been so chaotic and challenging for all. Life
before literature was practical and predictable, but in present day, literature has expanded into
countless libraries and into the minds of many as the gateway for comprehension and curiosity of the

human mind and the world around them. Literature is of great importance and is studied upon as it
provides the ability to connect human relationships, and define what is right and what is wrong.
Therefore, words are alive more than ever before.