Kristen Looper: Litertaure Post for August 31st

I couldn't have been more than two when my grandmother began to make up stories for me. There were so many that it eventually became a series called Susie's Prayer with little Susie and Susie Too as the main characters. Grandma was so inspired that she typed them up and began to sketch pictures along with them. One of my favorite phrases was, "Grandma!! Tell me another Susie story!!! Please!". It wouldn't matter if she had just finished telling me one, she would make up another. This is one of my fondest and earliest memories concerning literature. When I was just beginning school I didn't like to read much, but as I grew I developed a love for books. As a matter of fact, the reason I am writing this post today and not yesterday or earlier is because I was caught up in a book. Even as I am typing I am wondering what will happen next to Meena after she was just attacked by a man whose impossible rants further convince her that he is, indeed, crazy. Or is he? Though this book isn't a truly significant literary text, it is the most recent literary experience I have had. As recent as twenty minutes ago. I have also read my share of significant works of literature as well. I love Jane Austen books such as Pride and Prejudice and Emma, typical of almost any female book lover. I have read many of Shakespeare's plays, such as Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. The list goes on and on. Though I have not enjoyed every classic or other book I have read, I can appreciate the time put into each work and why it is significant in its own way. Literature matters because literature transfers knowledge and life experiences among people, not only in the time each piece was created but long past that time. Literature impacts people long after its writers or speakers no longer walk among us. Literature is for learning and interaction, not just for entertainment.  Literature only does not matter to those people who don't see it for the importance it has and have not experienced it the way it was meant to be experienced.