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People have always felt the dryness of their reality and sought
for a soul to rain that dryness. Literature along with holy books have
had fulfilled that need to the transcendent. There are many
questions in the human minds about destiny, love, life, death,
justice and so on, and if there are no explanation of these questions,
this could lead it to a state of imbalance and desperation. Actually,
literature help to better perceive the diversity of the human world
.and what is beyond
In real life, a person sees things from one level, his own; things
which are shorter than his eye level will be considered short, and
things which are bigger than his own size will be considered big and
the list goes on. Things he cannot see however will not be admitted,
or at least cared for. Literature provides us with a whole view of
things; every aspect is under one's eyes: places, times, characters,
events, motives, and passions are all an open book to the reader of
literature who is elevated to a higher level of realization and
sensitivity enabling him to apply this newly-gained intellectual
maturity to his own real life. Generally, good literature provides its
faithful readers with new intellectual and perceptual tools to help
.them do better in their lives
So life can be the one to imitate literature, and this can actually
be true if we come to the question of who precedes who? If we let
go of our imagination to draw the whole scene from the very
beginning, we will notice that everything that exists in the real world
existed in the mind before. When someone decides to build a house,
he does not go and start the work without first having a mental
picture of it; how the doors will be, which location is the best, what
shape and color should it be, and other kinds of mental images. And
this is what we call literature, the state that precedes reality and
.helps in shaping it
By Ghada Al Bedairi