A lot of people read as a hobby and that is completely easy to understand.
But at least in my country we need to read fiction books in school and analyse them.
It’s important to know that I am talking about fiction, not about history or math books. I am talking about Shakespeare and those fiction writers.
As an example, we need to explain the meaning of verses in poems and we need to understand what is the meaning behind books.
Why we need to do this? Is the necessary nowadays?
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Because being able to understand a text beyond it’s basic surface meaning is a valuable skill that will help you.
Aside from improving your understanding of language, it helps train you to see things as more than their surface appearance. Many, many, many works of art – whether it be a book, movie, piece of music or painting – have complicated and valuable hidden meanings that aren’t obvious at a surface read.
Priming you to consider what you watch and read beyond a surface level equips you to discover a whole world of stuff you’d otherwise miss.
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