What is the value of literature? It promotes intellect and creativity. It fuels wisdom and morals. Literature in early America was a critical driving force behind the blossoming nation. Our readings provided us insight in the minds of early Americans like Webster, who proclaimed his pride in his nation explaining how they valued morals and literature. Now fast forward 200 years and ask a typical 16 year what was the last classical novel he read, or any book what so ever. The fabric of our nation is changing and new generations are emerging, but what does our future hold? We once valued literacy and intellect but that seems to have vanished in this new generation. I’m not one to preach reading and I when I was raised my parents didn’t shove books down my throat, but rather I grew up in an environment that emphasized technology, as that was what becoming dominate in a household. In the past, books and newspapers were a dominate part of everyone’s life and it was like their internet. We learn history so we aren’t doomed to repeat it. But history comes from books of literature, to give us insight to the society at that particular point in time. All that we can do is hope that our generation isn’t doomed to repeat history and disprove the statement that all nations rise and fall.
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