"Literature" and "Culture and Anarchy"

Like many others, I found both of the readings to be a little dry and hard to follow at times. Although it was hard to follow what I took away from, "Culture and Anarchy," was that the Bible has and remains to be the form of literature that people turn to whenever they have questions or doubts. No matter if you're religious or not everybody knows what the Bible is and it has been studied and looked over for centuries. I've always find it interesting that one book can mean so much to so many people or cause so many arguments and theories. It's no wonder that it has been called the "Book of Nations." No other book has been able to withstand the length of time that the Bible has and it may always be the literature that people believe in.

While reading "Literature" it got me thinking about how literature has grown since the beginning, much of this growth being caused by the advancement of technology. This article got me thinking about how literature now pertains to films as well as written words. Films may be adapted pieces that make only subtle changes from the text or change the story entirely, maybe only leaving the character's names the same. This can cause both the book and movie to have different meanings, causing a questioning of why was their a need to delve away from the original piece. I also find movies to be literature because they can be original pieces. They are a part of the writer, it contains their ideas and perspective and a lot of the times, you leave a theater questioning your own life because of it.