The Significance of Literature in Everyday Life

Reading literature is not only an activity of reading the text such as poems, plays, essays, stories and novels but also consists of thinking, discussing, analyzing and writing about the text itself.  For those people who love to use their leisure times on reading, literature has a power to entertaint them. By reading a literary text, the readers can get pleasure for spending their time to escape from their own lives and start to imagine the situation that happens in the stories. On a deeper level,  by reading a story, the readers will be able to see other people’s perspectives. Through a story, the readers can gain information of certain places, periods and cultures, the story capable to carry the readers to understand Life which they never experienced. Seeing from another point of view will allow the readers to experience more about life and also to help them to emphatize others. 

When the readers know how to understand literature and to apply the values of a stories to reality, it can helps them to deal with problems in life. Some people that literature is a reflection of the society and some texts consist of real reflection of what is happening.  Since it comes from life experiences, people can use literary texts to gain their knowledge about human’s problems and strenghten their ability to find out the truth around. The readers can use literature to be their guidance of life, compared the situation in the novels and reality as a reflection and to understand how to live.

As a product of art, literature contributes a significant impact in people’s life. For individual purpose, people can learn about feelings, humanities, ideas, cultures and other values on human’s lives. Through a text, people can experience particular events from a different society, place and even different era. Those values, can  help people to gain wisdom because one has to know the condition and feels it before give any comments or judgements. Besides, everything that written in a text such as prose, poetry or novel can be a reminder of what is really happens in the society. Literature becomes a mirror of the condition of human life, even the story take a different setting place or time but the values that embodied can be relevant to our lives today and somehow it becomes the prediction of the future. If people wise enough not to underestimate the role of literature in life, maybe the society can appreciate literature more.

            After reading prose such as The Rocking Horse Winner, Maggie A Girl The Street, The Legacy and The Kugelmass Episode the writer standpoint that literature does not change, it strengthens the concept of literature. When a story like The Kugelmass Episode scrutinized, we can learn about two differents culture and society since there are two stories in one. The writer, Woody Allen, puts a story of Madame Bovary in his story which has different setting of time and place with his own. To understand the story, we should have doing simple research to know the society’s culture in each story. This story can also be the guidance of life because the values embodied in the story can be applied in life and still relevant to the society nowdays. The Kugelmass Episode also fulfill the main function of literature which is to entertaint the readers, because Allen uses a comedy to deliver the story and it is really funny from beginnning to end.