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Literature

        Learning about literature and the history behind it are very important. Many people (especially students in school) don’t take it seriously. They are more of memorizing it for class than learning about literature and understanding it. It also plays a big role in our everyday life. If you break it down, literature is about comprehending complex stories, discovering meanings/morals behind stories or poetry, the history about it, who wrote what, who discovered the types of literature and many more!

                Literature can be so interesting. It just depends on how you interpret it or even teach it. There are so much other things to learn instead of making students do “achieve 3000.” We are taught things that do not even help us, as the future generation.  Instead, we are given work that teacher’s say we “improved and enjoyed” but in reality it is the complete opposite.

                                

Teachers, English teachers to be accurate, don’t really teach their students about literature. To be straight forward, teachers are very lazy. They don’t take the time to actually teach their student what literature is truly about and how important it is! Instead, these English teachers teach students things they already know or even worse, give them work and not teach them how to do it. 

If only there were teachers who were just as passionate as my senior English teacher. In there, we actually do work, where we actually learn something and learn to comprehend behind old literature. They way old literature is written, are very difficult to understand. He encourages us and helps us to understand the meanings and what the story/poetry is really about. We also learn about the author and their history. 

                In my opinion, out of all four years in high school, I FINALLY actually learned something in my English class. No other class has taught me the same way. Many other students had agreed that the way he is teaching literature is really interesting.

                A few of the things I would like to share to you about literature are it’s a few parts history, humanism and carpe diem poems. A few of the kings and queens back then did not learn how to read or write instead they hired people who would were literate. Five languages that influenced the English language were Latin, Scandinavian, Gaelic and German. Humanism was also another major influence on English Literature.  Sir Thomas More was a humanist in England, he wrote “Utopia.” That was a famous treatise on human society. Carpe diem poems were about seizing the day and how would these people manage their time because only DEATH knows when you’ll die. These are just a few things that I learned in my British Literature class.

                THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS THAT ARE INTERESTING ABOUT LITERATURE. More than half of the people take learning for granted. I think that that is very sad. Every subject is important, but wouldn’t it be nice to know where your language was derived from and the history behind literature because that was where it all started?