1.In the chapter2 “What is literature and does it matter?” which is written by Jonathan Culler, he points out that literary and non-literary cannot be clearly defined according to their style, How to defined them depends on how readers think about them. Looking though history, literary and non-literary both act as the container of culture, have developed their diversity under many cultural backgrounds. However, Culler also attempts to address the most importance quality of the literature, which is utility. He lists a puzzle in the article that extracts random words from a context and line them on a page, the result shows that the sentence lost its function because it does not make sense anymore (24), it proves that utility is a vital quality of literature. In my opinion, the most important aspect of this chapter is understanding the utility of literature. Therefore, to understand it well students need some training such as: “memorize them, study their grammar, identify their rhetorical figures and their structures or procedures of argument” (22). The reason why I think the definition of literature is important because society needs improvement. Without an efficient way to work and learn, the society can hardly develop. Besides, being logical and relevant is the reason why literature attracts people’s attention and makes them feel it is worthy.

2.The question stays with me is if reading is like a conversation between literature and reader, will the values of reader cause cultural extinction?

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