What do you love most about reading? The fact that you can use your imagination to make what you're reading into a movie in your head? I enjoy the fact that when you read a book, you get to know a certain set of characters and their personalities. Eventually after you get past the Who?, What?, and Why?, of the story you get emotionally invested in the character's well-being and when the thing the characters are most afraid of happens, it always does trust me I learned that in a creative writing class, you are eternally upset and nervous about what they are going to do next.
I think authors are the most ingenious people of our society due to the fact that they can create a dream movie in your mind by transferring what they imagine into words, then put those artfully crafted words into a novel, which makes you create the dream world in your imagination. Authors can draw up things and ideas that could never happen in the real world and that is why I love them most. They sweep you away from your real-world problems, if you have any, and take you to your dream world of a book.
Books have created crazy entity ideas like ghosts, which may be real even though I haven't experienced one yet, zombies, demons, superheroes/super-humans, super villans, vampires, werewolves, and the like. They make these entities either good or evil and construct the entire plot of the book based on the actions of the supernatural beings. This is what makes fictional books interesting. Not only books, but movies, video games, and TV shows create action scenes that I hope would experience in my life but since they're fiction would never happen in the real world. But in all honestly while we're on the subject, I would never survive any of these action-packed plots of these books, movies, TV shows, or video games. But I love being immersed in the dream world of these works of fiction and how they take me away from the real world.
You are completely right about the idea with reading. Reading allows you to get invested in a world that doesn't even exist. So I totally agree with your idea on why read?.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very true statement that I have never considered. I have always viewed books as neat and all but never as an ingenious sort of profession. I always thought of it as people who just had to much time on their hands but when you talked about how they find ways to use words to make incredible stories that could never happen in the real world makes them sound a lot smarter than I gave them credit for.
ReplyDeleteI used to read a lot when I was younger, but recently I haven't been reading unless it was required for school. I agree that it's fun to be able to picture what's going on in your head instead of seeing it on a screen.
ReplyDeleteI used to read a lot when I was younger, but recently I haven't been reading unless it was required for school. I agree that it's fun to be able to picture what's going on in your head instead of seeing it on a screen.
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