Wednesday, September 8, 2010

literature

my view of it at least...

what is literature...
in my point of view, literature is a story, anything that ha(s/ve) a story is considered a piece of literature to me... and as for what i think is a story is a DESCRIPTION of a sequence of events, or a statement regarding the facts pertinent to a situation in question (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story)(yar as for the story part... i kinda copied it from wiki... but its point of view and mine is around the same)
so... here is a list of Forms/types literatures (to me):
1) poems - yes... these are the first thing that came to my mind, (and most of yours i guess... since the fact that most of the time only I am reading my on blog... so the yours... in most case refers to me, my, mine...)as they describe an object. what object each poem describes? i don't know... there are many poems... i cant list them down, can i? anyway, they usually describe an object with (a) link(s) to its title
2)storybooks - ... STORYbooks and stories... the link between them... i wonder...
3) textbooks - yes, the ones that most normal people would dread, and usually fall asleep or drool in/on them... (p.s. if you don't at least dread textbooks, i am not saying you are not normal... but you ARE very... ABNORMAL...) why are textbooks considered a form of literature to me?... well... they do DESCRIBE what they meant to describe... e.g. science textbooks, they DESCRIBE science, what is science, how science works, what are example of science...ect... and the list goes on (not forever though...) math textbooks DESCRIBE math, english-english, chinese-chinese ,malay-malay, *hindi-hindi*(There is a common misconception that in India, they speak Indian. There is no language called Indian. India is linguistically very rich. There are around 3000 languages in India (including dialects))(http://wiki.answers.com/) ect... no need for me to go on... i know you reader(s) are falling asleep... so that is why textbooks is a form of literature...
4)movies/films/drama/tv-shows - why is number 4 so long? cos i just lumped 4 things together... why? Because they are SIMILLAR (not the same, notice that i used the word simillar) anyway, they are forms of literature as they usually have a *plot (unless it is a suckish programme or it WILL have a plot)(plot is - the STORY that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.)(http://www.google.com.sg/) even if it does not have a plot, it must run on some kind of storyline somehow... which at the very least DESCRIBE something...
5)pictures - they do somehow DESCRIBE the scene they each depicts... e.g. a picture of a toilet, it DESCRIBES the state in which the toilet is in. (p.s. please note that descibe not = depicts)
6)and the list goes on...
in a nutshell, literature to me is almost everything... but not anything... well there are things which are not literature at all... e.g. a random wall, a random spoon, a random person, nor the piece of thing floating on the water in your toilet bowl after you 'earn alot of money'

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