Why Literature Matters

My favorite fictional character would have to be Sherlock Holmes. I like him because he has awesome deductive reasoning skills. I relate his skills pretty much to my daily activities. I actually think that we do have to use deductive reasoning in our daily lives even only for a tiny amount. Even for the simplest things, we have to use our logic and analyze whether whatever we’re about to do is right and consider what the outcome is going to be. It always excites me whenever he finds new clues and starting to put the pieces together leading to the big picture. He is a page-turner! He adds suspense and excitement to the story and never fails to amaze me.

The value in reading literature is that it’s entreating and at the same time asking the readers to be creative as well as imaginative, which is good. Literature can take us places we’ve never been to and makes us feel like we’re living in the story’s setting. Reading literature can influence an individual in teaching the person how to cope with a certain situation at a certain time and place. Literature also gives us relatable live lessons, which are applicable to things that happen in our daily lives. When we have learned something from something we read, we’re able to share our knowledge to people around us and/or using what we know to help others. As a Christian, we should be more careful in reading books that can challenge our faith; like look for books that do not contradict God’s words, violent, and set unworthy examples. Sometimes, there is a benefit in reading books that challenge our faith. It opens up our minds to what people out there thinks of our faith. We have to understand God’s words truly before we question whether the Bible is right/wrong just because we read something different about It somewhere. There is a difference between twisting God’s words in the Bible for a book (like for a fiction story) and actually changing the His words completely to mock Christianity. I think we should know