Exploring the values s of reading literature

Exploring the values of reading literature

People have since long ago been using books as the means to transfer information , which allowed one man to pass his knowledge to the much greater number of apprentice than he could 've done it if he taught them personally . But except for the manuscripts intended to spread the useful data , there are numerous fiction books . From year to year their number increases , and today there are much more of them than of the books that contain some special knowledge . Some people say they are printed , bought

br and read just for fun , but if it were the only reason , so why would such a great number of them included into the schools ' and colleges curriculum ? The thing is that fiction works contain something which 's in some way much more important than the scientific data is . Imaginative literature is often used to transfer the values and principles of the author , which are , n their turn , the reflection of the norms and values the society contemporary to the writer held

The two novels that are going to be discussed in this essay , which are The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison doubtlessly belong to this category of fiction

The first novel , which 's The Invisible Man is about a man who looks for the sense of his life . As he 's young , societal approval means a lot to him , and it 's really hard for him to lead a life in congruence with the image the whites have of young black man in his area . After being expelled from college , the nameless Invisible Man (IM ) moves to New-York , in to find proper treatment there . After numerous hardships he finally understands that it 's not the society and the surroundings he has to in to feel right , but it 's his identity which 's the source of meaning in life for him

This piece of fiction carries us to the world , where nothing is the way it seems to be , the world , were the teenage ideals the main character held break and the things he thought he knew and people he used to trust , reveal their real face . The headmaster of the IM 's college , the young man used to see as an example of the black man who reached quite a high position without deceiving his ideals and principles , turns to be the egoistic creature for which his position of power is the only thing he values . . I 've made my place in it and I 'll have every Negro in the country hanging on tree limbs by morning if it means staying where I am (53 ) - Dr . Bledsoe states in conversation with the main character and it is one of the first disappointments the young man gets , the one that begins to ruin his picture of the world . He betrays one of the key values for the IM which 's trust . In this...