My Literary Life

Fiction has always been my main literary venue. My earliest memories involving literature would be reading children's mystery and adventure books from my school's library. A more recent memory was when I began reading Jodi Picoult, one of the latest fiction authors. I enjoy reading her because her plots involve issues that are relevant to society and which use heartbreaking yet poignant plot situations.  I have read many texts that I would consider significant. Among those is one entitled Eve's Daughters by Lynn Austin. It is an historical fiction novel that tells the story of four generation of women who come of age in America. This story was significant because it epitomized the essence of God's love and forgiveness. Literature matters in a number of ways.  If the world did not have literature, intelligent thought could not be permeanently recorded and passed on to others who could read and learn from them. In the same way, others would not have the opportunity to read the thoughts and ideas of others and take something tangible from that literature. In my opinion, there is no instance in which literature does not matter. Some would say that math has nothing to do with literature and the written word. But how would we know about all these math equations and how they work if someone at some point had not written the equations, along with their explanations, down so others could read them?  Can literature be applied to music and science? Certainly. The world would not have even heard of How Great Thou Art if someone had not put pen to paper and written the lyrics. As for science, Thomas Edison's lightbulb could not have been mass-produced if he had not written the formula down so others could have access to it. So you see, literature is all around us, even in the least obvious places.