The Importance of Reading Great Literature

In reading great literature you empathize and it's a wonderful wonderful dissertation on the value of literature segment four uh the way forward gary as you concluded your work hidden in plain view narrative and creative potentials of war and peace. The essay i probably share with my students more often than others explains why college kids are avoiding the study of literature. If we get learned to pay attention to all those things we would understand life more deeply, says Tolstoy. We put a curtain up between us and we don't want to face the implications of our own mortality or moral responsibility for some pleasant to be so but if you want to really understand what you value life you know see it by the throat

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