I sit on the soft carpet of my living room floor. It is a warm day and there is the sound of other children playing outside. Shouts and laughter filter in through the open windows along with a gentle breeze that ruffle the pages of a book in my hands. As the world moves on around me, it goes by without notice. I am in an entirely different world different world lost in the pages and words of a novel. I have been taken to a faraway strange and wonderful place where monsters and magic seem as real as the very pages in my hand, a place where a boy my age could be a hero that saves the world or can ride dragons and wield magic as simply as one might wield a stick. Growing up I loved nothing more to spend an afternoon lost in the pages of a great
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Pain, sadness, or even loneliness can all be forgotten between the words written in a book if only for a moment. Literature allows us to go places we could never see or places maybe even somewhere we could never even imagine. It allows us to experience things that we may never have the chance too. As I grew older, I began to see that the many literary authors I read from where doing more than simply writing stories. I found that many where expressing emotions, opinions, and maybe a piece of their heart. Not only does literature allow us to experience the creations of their authors but it allows us to see things from a different perspective. It is very difficult to understand how someone truly feels about something and to see from there point of view but by reading literature, it allows you to see things in ways we might not be able to. An idea, a though or an experience may be shared with countless people in the form of a story or poem. It is amazing to think that I can sit down right now and see into the imagination and mind of the likes of Shakespeare, Mark Twain, or any author, not restricted by distance or time. Perhaps I do not have a time machine and perhaps I will never see these great authors in person or have a conversation with them, however, they can still tell me a
Pain, sadness, or even loneliness can all be forgotten between the words written in a book if only for a moment. Literature allows us to go places we could never see or places maybe even somewhere we could never even imagine. It allows us to experience things that we may never have the chance too. As I grew older, I began to see that the many literary authors I read from where doing more than simply writing stories. I found that many where expressing emotions, opinions, and maybe a piece of their heart. Not only does literature allow us to experience the creations of their authors but it allows us to see things from a different perspective. It is very difficult to understand how someone truly feels about something and to see from there point of view but by reading literature, it allows you to see things in ways we might not be able to. An idea, a though or an experience may be shared with countless people in the form of a story or poem. It is amazing to think that I can sit down right now and see into the imagination and mind of the likes of Shakespeare, Mark Twain, or any author, not restricted by distance or time. Perhaps I do not have a time machine and perhaps I will never see these great authors in person or have a conversation with them, however, they can still tell me a