Running Down Literature Lane

SYLVIA WINSTON
Features Editor

“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote,” E. M. Foster once said.

When people think about books nowadays, they tend to picture this 500 page odyssey that will bore them to death. However 200 years ago, literature was one of the few things that helped America endure its passing. Through the Civil War many authors, like Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens, helped this country get through some tough times. Whether they wrote about inspiration or fiction, citizens would find literature as their refuge.

However, time has passed and literature has changed. In addition to this, a new racy genre has risen. Books no longer instruct human beings in a positive manner. What has happened to literature? American cannot forget what literature has done for them. According to Junior Vanessa Lam “Literature helps us understand and make sense of the world around us. We see the world through the eyes of different writers from different cultures and in turn learn the ways to deal with things happening around us.”