Literature shapes humanity and molds the brain to show stories through the eyes of someone else. Ray Bradbury and Joe Fassler have written separate texts to show how literature has improved how people feel, see, or think about a person, place, or thing. Literature lives throughout humans and opens minds to more opportunity and options for improvement. The exposure to quality literature is vaunted and has an immense effect on the improvement of human nature.
In the book Fahrenheit 451, reading books is considered to be illegal, therefore books do not get read by most characters in the book. Even though reading is an act that must be kept a secret, literature still manages to live on through characters in the story. For example, when Montag is inside the burning house where the woman chooses to burn with her books, Montag catches a glimpse of a line in a book. “Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.” (Bradbury 37). The woman burning in the house is what pushes Montag to ask internal questions. Before the woman died she had said, “You can’t ever have my books,” …show more content…
Literature shows humans that empathy and compassion is found in even the most least expected places. For example, “ . . . one criminal, a young man, is dying. As he dies, another criminal stands watch before his bed, and he begins to cry . . .” (Fassler). Majority of people have an ideal thought that criminals are desensitized monsters, but the criminal crying shows that he has remorse and feelings. In the text, it states, “This man committed crimes. He was not useful to the society. He did terrible things. But he is also a human being. He also had a mother like we had . . . We should understand that people are not bad, but they can do bad things under particular circumstances” (Fassler). Literature is trying to show that people mess up, but it does not make that person any less