WHY READ?

WHY READ

A Closer Look on the Importance of Reading

Why read ? Page 1

Reading has been a huge part of almost everybody 's lives . Some are into reading novels , essays , short stories , poems and almost anything that could be found interesting to read . In connection with this phenomenon this research will focus on three basic reasons why one could say that reading is very important based on three specific resources . These references are the following : Good Readers and Good by Vladimir Nabokov , Does a Literary Canon Matters by Katha Pollitt

and One Writer 's Beginnings by Eudora Welty . Moreover , based from these authors , one could actually summarize the importance of reading into three general ideas . First , reading is actually a form of art a way to articulate one 's self or communicate with other people and even with nature using one 's imagination . Second , it could actually set a person free from ignorance and third , it is one of the tangible actions that a person could use in to emancipate himself from some forms of repression and thus , understanding your society . For one , it could actually be considered as one pleasurable hobby or in fact be a part of one 's profession or career . Other people find reading a form of expressing one 's self hence , liberating them from different bondages . In addition to this , these three points are actually intertwined with each other One will be able to see this as this study goes on

The Good Readers and Good by Nabokov elaborates or explains the first point of this research very well . Because according to the author

But what I mean is that the reader must know when and where to curb his imagination and this he does by trying to get clear the specific world the author places at his disposal . We must see things and hear things we must visualize the rooms , the clothes , the manners of an author 's people (Nabokov , 4

Why read ? Page 2

Nabokov basically wants to say that readers should not just be contented with what they understand in the first reading of a book or a novel That is why the author qualifies a first-rate reader as one who actually rereads (qtd . in Nabokov , 3 ) a book up to actually four times . The

author stresses that this practice establishes a good connection between the imagination of the reader with that of the writer thus , making the process a more enjoyable and sensible one

Through this , Nabokov clarifies that the writer and the reader would be able to enjoy a grand literature . In effect , this would not just benefit the writer but more than anybody else , it would be the readers who would be able to express themselves better through putting their own selves into the story because they get to experience the understandings of the character in the story

Also , the author believes that

The effort to begin a book , especially if it is praised...