Explain How Literature Imitates Life
Literature Imitates Life Imitates Literature
How are life and literature connected? Literature has been an important aspect of society for quite a while now. It has existed for centuries and has impacted, changed, and improved many lives. Reading is my favorite thing to do. I read many types of genres, stories, and novels and I can always find a way to connect it to my life. Literature imitates life through conflicts that reflect our own, direct and indirect characterization that mimics how we see others and ourselves, and types of narration that we experience life in.
In literature, characters experience,evaluate, and solve different types of conflict that reflect our own issues. In The Most Dangerous Game by Richards Connell, the characters in the story experience all types of conflict, including Man versus Man, Man versus Society, man versus Nature, and Man versus Self. These types of conflict were created to specifically reference our everyday lives. Everyday we struggle with nature, other people, society, and even ourselves. Another example of conflict is in Lord of the Flies by William Golding. In this novel, there is an emphasis on Man vs Nature, Man vs Man, and man vs Self conflicts. The characters struggle with each other and their environment as well as themselves to maintain order throughout the course of the …show more content…
When I was younger, I was bullied because i was different from everyone else. In many novels, characters experience the same thing. This makes us feel like there are other people who are experiencing the same issues. \Some bullies also experience difficult conflicts in their own lives. No person is as two dimensional as we might believe they are. Every person has situations that are hard to surpass and sometimes we take it out on other innocent people. Sometimes, though rare, life ends up imitating literature through the way we expect things to be and are reactions to certain
How are life and literature connected? Literature has been an important aspect of society for quite a while now. It has existed for centuries and has impacted, changed, and improved many lives. Reading is my favorite thing to do. I read many types of genres, stories, and novels and I can always find a way to connect it to my life. Literature imitates life through conflicts that reflect our own, direct and indirect characterization that mimics how we see others and ourselves, and types of narration that we experience life in.
In literature, characters experience,evaluate, and solve different types of conflict that reflect our own issues. In The Most Dangerous Game by Richards Connell, the characters in the story experience all types of conflict, including Man versus Man, Man versus Society, man versus Nature, and Man versus Self. These types of conflict were created to specifically reference our everyday lives. Everyday we struggle with nature, other people, society, and even ourselves. Another example of conflict is in Lord of the Flies by William Golding. In this novel, there is an emphasis on Man vs Nature, Man vs Man, and man vs Self conflicts. The characters struggle with each other and their environment as well as themselves to maintain order throughout the course of the …show more content…
When I was younger, I was bullied because i was different from everyone else. In many novels, characters experience the same thing. This makes us feel like there are other people who are experiencing the same issues. \Some bullies also experience difficult conflicts in their own lives. No person is as two dimensional as we might believe they are. Every person has situations that are hard to surpass and sometimes we take it out on other innocent people. Sometimes, though rare, life ends up imitating literature through the way we expect things to be and are reactions to certain