Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe once said, “This is one great thing that literature can do – it can make us identify with situations and people far away.” Literature is written to convey a message or to state a point. Through literature, we perceive the world in the author’s point of view and relate to ourselves in some way. The novels, short stories, and poems that we read in class are relevant to our everyday life. We can relate to these works in different ways, such as the society depicted in a literary work, a character, or the theme stated in work. By relating the literature that we read to everyday life, we can have a better understanding of the works and the world. In our blog posts, we will be comparing and contrasting the literary works that we read in class with our experiences or discoveries in life. Our goal is to understand more in depth the works we’ve read in class and create interesting insights from them. We hope to show our followers the strong links between world literature and ourselves despite the difference in era and nationality.
– Amy Wang and Kary Huang
