The road to possibilities

Like this picture, studying world literature can lead to many paths in life filled with a multitude of colors and experiences. Throughout the semester I have learned to better analysis books. By studying literature from different cultures, I am able to better understand different cultures' societal values, and attitudes towards things. By not reading things written from people from all around the world, one will remain ignorant about what the rest of humanity has to potentially offer them.


                                                                                      The Heroes Journey

"So perhaps the hero lurks in each one of when we don't know it?" (Moyer 131) We are the hero, we are the enemy, and we are everything in between. Heroism is doing something courageous, when we stand up for someone, it could risk our social status, job, or alter someone's opinion of us. Heroism doesn't have to what Spiderman, Superman, and Batman glorified it as. We are all heroes.

                                                                        Jonathan Swift

"Supposing that one thousand families in this city, would be constant customers for infants flesh, besides other who might have it at merry meetings, particularly at weddings and christening, I compute that Dublin would take off annually about twenty thousand carcasses." (Swift, 7) Throughout A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift has been imposing a mood of satire. He jokingly talks about eating and selling babies to make money for Ireland. It is important to note the satire throughout because it makes one more aware of changes in attitude throughout a work.

                                                      Lord of the Flies

" "I'm part of you. Close, close. close! I'm the reason why it's a no go. Why things are the way they are." (Golding 147) Here, Simon is talking to The Lord of the Flies who is telling him that Simon himself and all of humanity is the beast. This book was and is so important to understanding literature and ourselves because Golding Chronicles the events of once sweet boys, turned savages. For literature, it is important because in order to fully understand the book, one must fully look through the metaphorical glasses of clarity.