Literature allows an individual to step back in time and find out about life on Earth from those who walked before us. We are able to gather a more robust understanding of culture and have a greater appreciation of them. We learn through the ways history is recorded, within the types of manuscripts and through speech itself. Literature may be a reflection of humanity and the way for us to grasp one another. By taking note of the voice of another person we will begin to work out how that individual thinks. I feel that literature is vital due to its purpose and in a very society, which is becoming increasingly detached from human interaction, novels create a conversation