Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Passionate!
Great Literature has always been a pleasure to me, but I have never really studied it...until now. I am now in a class that has stretched my thinking skills to the point I have smoke escaping my ears! The wonderful part of this class is I now find myself enjoying litererature in new ways. My eyes are open to new genres as well as looking for less obvious meanings. In came Gina Loring...a passionate writer and woman! You have got to check this out!
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I have always loved Literature. I remember in school reading a story in Literature that really stuck with me. The title of the story is "The Battle of Chickamauga", I have a copy of the story. When reading true Literature one must read with their eyes and ears wide open. This story tells you about a young boy that is deaf, and he wanders through the woods and becomes very sleepy. He crawls into a hollow log, and falls to sleep. While the young boys is sleeping, the troops come through the woods fighting. When the boy wakes up, he doesnt understand the dead bodies lying around, and when he returns to his home the home is in ruins. His family is dead, and he is lost and does not understand. While reading this piece one cannot help but get into the story and into the young boys mind and feel the emotions he must be going through. You can't help but wonder what your own reaction would be, and you feel his pain and the depth of his inability to hear. Yet in the same retrospect you realize because of his deafness he survived one of the worst battles in history.
ReplyDeleteLiterature gives you more meaning, more depth of what the story is really about. It brings you into the story, gives the story true meaning and understanding, you walk away feeling more of the emotional side of the story. I think that is why I have always loved Literature, it's more than a story.