Literature: A Mold

Christopher Hum

Due date: December 8th, 2000

When people began to talk they had a form of communication.  The next step they wanted was a way to express themselves in other ways than speech, literature was born.  When most people think of literature they think of books and writing, this is an assumption that is not true.  Not all literature is so.  Literature comes in many forms, it makes who we are, and makes the future.  People use this every day, everywhere, to better themselves and leave a history behind.

        Literature does not have to be confined to just text, for it is anything that could express yourself.  Other forms such as paintings, photographs, and even cartoons are considered literature because they all express themselves in some form.  When you read a comic like “Calvin and Hobbes” does it not express its ideals though the comic?  Literature is an art where everyone around the world can participate, for anything they do can be a form it whether it be expressive dancing, music or the commonly used writing.  Anything that can be left behind somehow is also a part of its meaning.

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        The art of literature is used everywhere in the world.  Bibles use it to tell about god and their beliefs for their people to follow.  Poems express compassion and feelings for others to see.  Music sheets left behind for others to play tell the emotion of the composer and music of the time.  Literature helps people to understand feelings that they would never think of or understand those feelings better.  For example, if a person writes about love and you learn something new about it that literature has served its purpose to help you learn.

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