Sumon 1
Karen Sumon
Jesse Doiron
ENGL 1302.02
August 29,2011
Value Of Literature
As a child, I loved to read, reading brings me enjoyment as I grow and learn while
instantly escaping to another world. I always considered myself to have a broad sense of
the word literature. In my opinion anything that is written down and tells a story is
literature. I think that the purpose of literature is to educate, inform, entertain, and to give
the authors a chance to express themselves. The importance of literature to me cannot
only be expressed in what I have learned from reading, but how it has impacted my life. I
am going to be talking about how literature has affected me, and in a small and how it has
affected my opinions on certain topics.
Many types of literature have taught me interesting things about the world,
culture, and myself. Literature has shaped me into the person I am today. I believe that
children are very easily influenced, as a child I was exposed to literature almost every
night. I began to read dr. sues books when I was six years old. This habit affected my
personality because literature is about connecting with characters on a personal level, and
I feel like I can do that now to with my friends better than most people. I have a great
sense of sympathy, which keeps me from doing anything to anyone that I would not like
done to myself. There is a link between sympathy and reading at a young age. Sympathy
