Literature: My Escape to Other Worlds

Looking at the list of things to write about, I found it extremely difficult to pick a topic. There are so many things in life that I feel an immense amount of passion for, and to pick one or two things is almost torturous. What made me finally decide is when I realized that almost every one of those subjects fit in to literature in one way or another. When reading a book, you can encounter many different aspects of life, which is why I love reading so much. Another thing I love about reading is the way that a book can be so entirely fictional, so much that there is no possible way that it could be real, yet the reader still finds themselves rapped up in the world of the book. The last thing that I love about reading is that there are so many different types of books, and they can fit all moods of life. It is nice to escape from the world and find yourself in another, whether you like the unreal world because it is perfect or because it makes you feel better about yourself. Reading is the perfect solution to every one of my problems.

Although people rarely think of it, it is not the books themselves that readers must give credit to but the authors behind them. This statement seems incredibly obvious now, but if you are anything like me, you will find that while sucked in to the world of a fabulous book, you think nothing of the writers, but you simply imagine that the book is real in its entirety. The ironic thing about this is that the greater the author, the less a reader credits that author. I say this because the better the book, the more you are enveloped in nothing but the book, and you don't want to think about the mechanics behind it. However, if the novel is poorly written, it is extremely hard for a reader to lose themselves in it. So when you think about, being a good author must be extremely emotionally unrewarding.

Although everything I have said in this assignment is something that I find interesting, the most intriguing thing to me is that a good author can make you believe something that you would have never believed before. I'm not just talking about the plots of the stories, but the political and religious ideas as well. For example, if a good author wrote a book in the perspective of a murderer, if that author wanted to, they could make the reader feel sympathy for someone who would otherwise be shunned. For those of you who are movie lovers and can relate better to that, think of the movie series “Hannibal”. In this movie, the viewer can't help but feel sympathy for the brutal murderer. The same things can be portrayed in novels.

Taking all of these things in to consideration, I can't help but have enormous pleasure in reading books. Whether it be horror or fantasy, sci-fi or action, I love to read and my passion for books will never stop.