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Cesar Mendez

Ms. Harmon

4th Period

9/12/18

Why Study World Literature

World literature is for students today for them to learn stories and perspectives of

different people from different cultures. World literature is the stories written by people with

firsthand experiences or about someone’s experiences and even interpretations of the world

around them from their perspective, a great Quote comes to mind when thinking about literatures

ability to teach us “Just as real events and their real participants move us to anger, to tears, to

laughter or to insight, literature can accomplish the same.”(Breitman, 5) and to me this explains a

goal literature has which is to share experiences to other people.

How world history impacts the way students see culture is the way they see every side of

cultural experiences good and bad such as Aditi’s story of immigration from India to America

“My grandparents were refugees at the time of partition in India… They worded hard to earn

money… so that my parents would have a better chance at life” (Aditi, 5) this story was about

how Aditi’s culture had affected him and his family making them move and how moving

affected him also so there’s his view and what’s a better way to understand the challenges of a

character than to follow them in their story in their view. In the article Why Study World History

paragraph 3 Ann (the author) explains how we as people are connected by literature by breaking

social barriers of race, ethnicity, or religion as said by Ann “…generations reflect the same

issues and feelings regardless of time, nationality, or beliefs. Each of us is a member of a larger
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society.” (Breitman,3) this is a great message literature could teach students and it’s only

evolving every day.

I think world literature would affect me by giving me a more outward perspective of the

personal and cultural differences and similarities to my own experiences in life, expressed

through my words and actions towards other people soon because literature is important to me. I

think that my perspective of people is good but literature will help me grow to be better than just

good to make it great by helping me to grow more to accept more people and there beliefs not

that I don’t already but to show me and help me understand others.

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Works Cited

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