Part 1 of 2: What is Literature For?
Watch this short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RCFLobfqcw and accomplish to the following tasks:
(1) Outline the main points raised in the video.
(2) Explain at least three (3) Ways of Knowing (Language, Emotion, Imagination, Sense Perception, or Memory) that are most developed in the points raised in the video.
I think that for the first video, the main point of it was that it was trying to emphasize the importance of literature, which has come to be underappreciated and taken for granted nowadays. It actually identified points such as literature helps us feel what others can’t really put into words for us, literature can help us see things in the perspective of others, how it appeals to our emotions and much more. Particularly, the idea on how literature can make us feel emotions like empathy and sympathy was very eye-catching. It gave me a thought that perhaps, through literature we actually develop a certain kind of outlook when doing things. It could even shape the actions we would do in certain situations. Overall, I think that the video wanted to ultimately point out the usefulness of literature we don’t really see.
In this video, I also noticed around 3 points on the “ways of knowing”. In particular, I clearly saw the presence of emotion, imagination and language. To begin with, emotion was very evident. To quote, “It looks like literature wastes time, but is actually the ultimate time- saver.” How come? This is simply because by reading literature we are given access to so many emotions and feelings that would normally take us long periods of time to experience for ourselves. Furthermore, as we had mentioned earlier, it appeals to our emotions in the sense that the author successfully tells us what it feels like to go through certain experiences. For instance, by reading literature, we are given an idea of