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Hi Zhang, I so agree with you that the circumstances of that era were unfortunate for all the characters. It is very hard to judge if the characters should have or even could do something in a different way. It […]

Aww, that is so nice to read! 🙂

Hi, I agree with you that it is not a hundred percent sure whether some things in the story were depicted in positive or negative. I think this topic is very comprehensive and it has many points of view. Slavery […]

Hello Kushal, I also agree with you. Even many cultures are passing stories from generation to the next one. I believe that Narratives are not only providing knowledge but also opening our minds.

Hi Waleed, I think you made a point. Why would we read anything without getting something from it? But still, I believe that it is a kind of knowledge in all cases. No matter what we are reading, it will always […]

Hello Xu, it is interesting how you see the metaphor with the ladder. I don’t see the ladder so bleak. I think it is pointing out that there is always a way how to solve our matters. The question is if we are not […]

Hi Avinash, I really like your post, especially for the last few sentences. I was so confused about what could be hidden behind the metaphors of this particular poem, but as you said, we have to think […]

Hello Xu,
I like your post. And I have to add that the saying you have used about the helmets is, in my opinion, sometimes very easily applicable even in the spoken language, not only in literature. I mean, one […]

Hello Waleed, I like the example you have listed, the part from the book Harry Potter and implemented it into the context of the issues of our nowadays society.

Hello Jinrui, I like your post and actually completely agree with you. It is always about the attraction of the story or language and perception of the reader. The research texts are much less interesting than […]

Hi, I really like your post. Especially for that fact that you pointed out how significant could be the impact of communication through reading on us and our lives.

I think it is very important. I believe that literature can enrich your imagination, vocabulary, memory, provide a look into another culture and else. To read literature is way too different than reading, for […]

I agree with you. In my opinion, it should be about the writer. How he would define his work and if it was meant to be literature or not. Another thing is who is considering the quality of the literature. But that […]