What are the benefits of reading literature?

Answer 1

literature benfits a person in many ways. Depending on how you take literature.... what i can say is that, it helps us understand our being human. it allows us the expression of ones emotions in different ways such us through arts like painting and or sculptures. writings such as peoms, novels, biographies, autobiographies and many others... it also helps us in the understanding of other cultures that we have no idea of or cultures that we merely don't understand or have no points of view. with literature, one can actually be able to travel ones own mind through series of image scanning, like imaginations. a person is capable of imagining things because he explores his mind through visual may actually happen or not. to sum up everything. literature is something that gives us an idea of how we work as a person, as an artist, as a writer, as a sculpture, and or as a being.

Answer 2

There is nothing not to like about reading. Reading is a relaxing and effective way to have fun, relax, calm down, get away from it all. You get into someone else's skin for a while leaving yourself behind. You learn about new things, improve your vocabulary subconsciously, form new opinions. It can be informative, fun, exciting, scary, funny anything you want it to be. It's an enriching experience. Much more education and fun than Television, yuck!

Answer 3

The list is very long. This is just a start and pertains mostly to reading fiction:

1. The entertainment of story.
2. Escape. Vicarious experience.
3. The pleasure of enjoying another's art or craft.
4. A picture of other lives, other places, other times, other words--some real and some imaginary.
5. The sensation of trying on someone else's head: seeing experience from a point of view other than your own.
6. The taste and feel and color and energy of words well wielded.
7. Enlarging one's perceptions, understanding, comprehension. Enlightenment. Truth.
8. Sharing the experience with others by talking or writing about what you read.
9. to children who hate advices, reading moral stories is the best way.

Answer 4

It is when you read what you want to read, simply for the enjoyment of it. There are many who find great pleasure in the act of reading. Just because you do this doesn't mean you are a nerd!!!

Answer 5

Reading offers us several pleasures and they are not at all expensive. It does not cost much to have them. If time hangs heavy on our hands, we may pick up a book of short stories. We shall soon get lost in the story and we shall not know how time is passing. Reading light literature like novels and short stories brings us entertainment. Reading often helps in removing our gloom and collecting cheerfulness. When we are deserted by our friends and kith and kin, we can bank upon the company of books.

The companionship of books is sincere and faithful. Another pleasure provided by reading novels or poetry is the pleasure of escape. A book like Gulliver's Travels will take its reader into a strange and unknown land where completely strange creatures live. Our daily life often becomes routine and boring. To cut ourselves off from it for a short time, we may read some romantic novel which will take us to some fairly land. One more pleasure is the pleasure of identification.

When we are reading the adventures of some hero or adventurer, we get so much lost in the next that we become forgetful of our surroundings. We happen to identify ourselves with the hero. Reading also stimulates our brain, and widens our outlook. A well read man cannot afford to be shallow, narrow and fanatical in his outlook.

Answer 6

reading strenghtens the vocabulary, and it makes people smarter. It makes people understand more in their language, and it can teach you something that you may not know.

Answer 7

It is like watching t.v though your reading a book. Each story is like a little Jem.

Answer 8

You learn more and you become smarter.