Describe your personal relationship to literature and to reading.

Describe your personal relationship to literature and to reading. Begin by considering the meaning of literature. What does the term literature mean to you? What makes something literary in your own mind? If literature means different things to different people, who defines what is and what is not literature? Next, reflect on your relationship to reading and literature. What kind of reading engages/interests you? What about that writing draws you in? Do you find meaning in reading certain writing? If so, describe the satisfaction you draw from this process. Also consider how you read. Do you, for example, take notes or mark text as you read, or do you simply absorb the material on a page?

Answer 

Dictionary.com defines literature as “writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features” (Dictionary.com, 2012). To me literature means that books and essays that people are supposed to read, not for fun, but for a class of some sort. I think that a person who is either a professor or teacher defines what literature means. Also people who are on the school board can define it. Plus the people who write the work can define it to be literature. Fiction is the reading that interests me. I think that because I feel like I can escape from this world and enter one of fictional