Literature is important in everyday life because it connects individuals with larger truths and ideas in a society. It allows people to record their thoughts and experiences in a way that is accessible to others through fictional accounts. Literature affects people by teaching them, entertaining them, and inspiring them to take action. It also helps people understand different perspectives and walks of life. Reading literature has many benefits, including pleasure, building experience by exposing readers to different cultures and time periods, increasing empathy, and developing critical thinking skills.

1. LITERATURE AND LIFE

2. Presented to: Mutehara Sher Jang
Presented by: Zeenat Rehman
Ayesha Afzal
Mehwish Anwar
Afzaal Ahmad

3. Literature is important in
everyday life because it connects
individuals with larger truths and ideas
in a society. Literature creates a way
for people to record their thoughts and
experiences in a way that is accessible
to others, through fictionalized
accounts of the experience.
Literature

4. •Conti..
•“Poetry as a mere imitation of life” (Plato)
•According to him true reality consists in the ideas of things
and individual objects are only the reflections and
imitations.
•Painting
•The poet derives an inspiration from the world by power of
his imagination, the art of poetry then imitates this
imaginative inspiration in language. (Aristotle)

5. Conti..
•The poet does not imitate, but creates, it is reader who
imitates what the poet creates. Taking his material from
the actual world, a poet creates an ideal world by means
of imagination. (Sir Philip Sidney)
•Imaginative Literature gives us “just and lively” image of
human nature by representing its “passion and humors.”
(Dryden)

6. How does literature affect people?
Literature affects people by teaching them,
entertaining them and inspiring them to take action in
life. According to Gulf News, literature has "shaped
civilizations, changed political systems and exposed
injustice." Literature also helps people understand
other walks of life. Narratives, in particular, inspire
empathy and give people a new perspective on their
lives and the lives of others

7. Reading literature is rewarding in so many ways. For
instance, it helps people understand the nature of
society. Historic literature helps people understand
what life was like in the past, and dystopian literature
warns people of what life could be like in the future if
bad habits are continued. Utopian literature inspires
people to picture what life could be in a perfect
society.
Some literature inspires emotion. Love poems are a
timeless way for people to express romantic,
platonic, maternal and other forms of love.
Conti..

8. Literature about social injustice inspires anger and
encourages action for change.
Religious literature helps people find and nurture faith.
All literature helps people expand their minds.
Literature also affects people by offering them a way
to express themselves through writing and reading.
According to The Guardian, reading for therapy is an
age-old practice now known as "bibliotherapy.“
Conti..

9. Importance of Literature in Life..
Literature is important for many reasons, including its
ability to provide pleasure to readers, to help build
experience, to help readers empathize with others and
to develop thinking skills. While literature's educational
importance is often downplayed in favor of business and
technical education, the study of books offers many
positive benefits to readers.

10. Reading literature is a pleasurable, entertaining activity
that offers readers the potential to escape from the
troubles of daily life. Above all else, literature survives
because of its capacity to entertain readers. Literature also
has the power to provoke thought in readers, making it a
leisure activity that is also intellectually productive.
Conti..

11. A story can expose readers to different places, time
periods, viewpoints and cultures. Readers can gain
experiences through literature they would never have
access to in ordinary life. Literature's ability to capture
the imagination and depict the lives of others also
increases readers' ability to empathize with others.
Conti..

12. Finally, literature helps develop critical-thinking skills.
Readings and discussions of literature force readers
to make reasoned judgments about character
motivations, cause and effect, critical analysis of plot
and more.
Conti..

13. Benefits of Literature
 First, reading quality books helps us learn
to receive literature, not simply use it. Those who "use"
literature function more as consumers and, as a result,
often fail to appreciate its artistic merits or the ideas
developed in the work. They usually only read a book
once, thus missing out on the joys of receiving literature
by appreciating it in more depth and wanting to read a
great book more than once.

14. Conti..
 Second, literature-rich homeschooling helps children
become acquainted with the great conversation of ideas.
Throughout the centuries recurring themes that define our
humanity appear in literature--love, justice, redemption,
the meaning of life, and more. By reading literature that
explores these important themes we can participate in the
great conversation of ideas that stretches back through
human history.

15. Conti..
 Third, in reading great literature we can in a sense see
through the eyes of others, thereby expanding our
horizons and our understanding. As C.S. Lewis put it
in An Experiment in Criticism, "We want to be more than
ourselves ... We want to see with other eyes, to imagine
with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well
as with our own ... in reading great literature I become a
thousand men and yet remain myself." There's a world of
ideas to explore and literature can take us on a guided
tour of these insights.

16. Conti..
 Fourth, we are made to think and feel deeply, and
literature can help us develop not only our intellect, but
our emotions. It appeals to our entire being, especially
when we are immersed in a good story with characters
we care about.

17. Thank you