As technology evolves, we drift further away from our roots. Pen and paper becomes a keyboard and a lit screen. Printed pages are now becoming a thing of the past. Big screens and scripted dialogues are taking over the minds of the masses. Books have slowly evolved into work, not pleasure. It is hard to find children who spend their time reading a Dr. Seuss book rather than playing Flappy Birds on an iPad. People used to line up to snatch a newly released novel; now people wait in line to watch the next Fast and Furious movie. As other forms of media become more and more popular, the importance and use of books are becoming less and less significant. The saying “which came first: the chicken or the egg?” is often a very befuddling question
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Most people see Stephen King as a top-selling writer, not someone to be topped out by a TV show. Television shows and movies are a fixed, available way to entertain oneself. Everybody watches a new hit TV show. Hardly anybody knows about the Wicked Years book series by Gregory Maguire. “The one thing ‘everybody’ does is go to the movies” (paragraph 16); People want to belong to something and feel involved with the majority. Reading a book is not following suit with the masses. Bellow states “It is better to do as a majority of your contemporaries are doing, better to be one of millions viewing a film than one of mere thousands reading a book” (paragraph 13). Young people yearn to feel as though they belong to something big, and what is bigger than a blockbuster? The competition between a flashy, popular movie and days spent sitting in solitude while reading every detail in a book is incomparable. Reading just is not catching the young eye. Books are the swords and movies are the rifles; which would you summon to
Most people see Stephen King as a top-selling writer, not someone to be topped out by a TV show. Television shows and movies are a fixed, available way to entertain oneself. Everybody watches a new hit TV show. Hardly anybody knows about the Wicked Years book series by Gregory Maguire. “The one thing ‘everybody’ does is go to the movies” (paragraph 16); People want to belong to something and feel involved with the majority. Reading a book is not following suit with the masses. Bellow states “It is better to do as a majority of your contemporaries are doing, better to be one of millions viewing a film than one of mere thousands reading a book” (paragraph 13). Young people yearn to feel as though they belong to something big, and what is bigger than a blockbuster? The competition between a flashy, popular movie and days spent sitting in solitude while reading every detail in a book is incomparable. Reading just is not catching the young eye. Books are the swords and movies are the rifles; which would you summon to