The Importance of Reading Literature

In the cartoon, a teacher gives a literary work to the student, who is shocked by her action, saying:”just think of it as if you’re reading a ling text message.”It shows the case that people nowadays are indifferent to the heavy, thick and long literary works.

Various reasons are responsible for the phenomenon mentioned above. Firstly, modern technologies force us to live a high-paced life, which gives opportunities to the “fast-food culture” to be ubiquitous in our life. Therefore, reading literature, as a patience- and time-consuming activity, has irresistibly lost some of its participants. Secondly, the impetuous mentality of the whole society aggravates the impatience of modern citizens so that it is increasingly difficult for them to read a long and thick literary work. Thirdly the concept that reading literature is useless also contributes to the reluctance of reading literature.

Personally, reading literature can greatly broaden our mind and vision, motivate our critical and independent thinking, cultivate our patience and peace of mind, and perfect our selfhood, so why not spare some time on reading literature?