What does literature offer an individual? Literature offers an escape from reality while being engulfed into a fictional world of storytelling and it allows people to digress from real life obstacles, if only for a moment. It permits the experience of reading literature to include the pursuit of ideas and knowledge. Your literary experienceas the title of this book suggestcan become a personal journey, a quest for meaning (Clugston, 2014). How has the importance of reading changed from earlier eras (pre-digital/audio/visual media) to our present day? Do you think we read differently now than we did in prior generations? The importance of reading has not changed, just the many different convenient methods we can acquire literature. In the earlier eras of technology, either...