Munro Literature Reflection

Apart from enlightenment, wisdom, a boost to imagination, intellectual fulfillment and understanding of cultural diversity through creativity, there is also the mere and simple fact that this is the basis of the world we live in. Any piece of literature is a version of our society that we see every day. Such as: love, betrayal, dislike, death etc. It is real, and I believe that is the joy about reading literature. Since it that real, we tend to experience the characters emotions and actually understand how they feel at that moment. We can relate to literature since it’s not that fake, as is popular fiction books. Since literature is based so much and in depth about the characters involved, we start to be more aware of the people around us, their body language, facial expression, etc. Thus making us more socially and culturally conscious. It is important to study women’s literature because for the longest time now it has been a minority group and in the dark. Minority group means "singled out for unequal treatment." So with that being said, the more dominant group, men, would be the majority group because men have "greater power, privileges and social status." We have had so many literature pieces from the male perspective that the women’s perspective got shunned. We would get a better understanding of how our world works if we all listened and accepted what everyone had to say, and voice their own opinions through creative outlets, such as writing. The aspect of Alice Munro’s work that I enjoy the most when reading is that she really tries bringing every one of her characters to life. Not making them so far-fetched that people snap out of their zone of reading, but somehow made it really relatable at the same time. And for literature I’m glad that I noticed more on the character than the actual plot because that’s what literature is, a portrayal of our society and the people in it, at least, this is the case with Alice Munro's pieces of work.