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In her conclusion Annie Murry suggests her readers to understand the difference between as Frank Keromode calls "carnal reading" and "spiritual readding". Nowadays most of the time people read just to get information and soon forget about it, because it isn't been saved in their long-term memories. Instead she suggests to encourage her readers to find some kind of ways to be able to influence their children, our future generation, to get involved in deep reading. "Spiritual reading" will open doors to such an amazing world that no other source will be able to do. The main reason is that in the books are hidden our ansestors hundreds of thousands years of life experience.
Her first claim to support her issue is that everyone should understand that reading is important factor for developing brain. In order to understand the writings we must involve ourselves into deep reading, so our brain can handle it.
She also points out the importance of printed pages. Readers who choose real books instead of electronic books are protected any kind of interruptions and they start to
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Her conclusion over the theme of reading was that the role of reading in our lives has more meaningful effects than they suggested. She agrees that it is possible that reading makes us morally better,smarter or nicer but what's the most important is that readings makes us what we are now "humans". With the help of reading humans succeeded in their life during many many years. The human brain structure is mystery and very different from other animals living on the earth. They were able to find the ability to write and read which became the main root on which humans built their lives. They could think, analyze and pass to future generation whatever they did or happened during their time. And only with this incredibly huge power in their hands they could separate themselves from

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