week 4 post 1

people study literature to take them away from the daily grind of our lives. if you find a good book you can place yourself in the place of one of the characters and your life problems and worries vanish for the time that you are reading. it also allows us to see what life was like in different times or places. if we study shakespeare we can see what it was like to live in his time or if we study hemminway we can see what it was like around WWI in places that were affected by war. so we study literature to get away and learn about different times and places.