At the beginning of the podcast, Dr. B stated that entertainment has never been just entertainment. This struck me because I knew that but have never fully admitted the phrase. I am someone who does say to my friends that entertainment is entertainment meaning that it is not always real. I am someone who will add some perspective of the fact that it is just used to add some excitement to our lives or distract us from our own problems for the moment but also do not provide much benefit to our lives. Now benefits or particular roles that literature and overall entertainment play is more than just entertainment. Dr. B mentions that there are lessons\u00a0 that come from them whether they are complex or not varies, but there are lessons that are conveyed through narrative form or through some kind of median. The morals taught do not have to come from just one story. There can be multiple perspectives taken that convey the same moral or lesson.\u00a0 It is interesting to think how we can learn so much from various literature and that I can learn the same lesson as someone else even if we read different stories as the root of the lesson remains the same. The literature I read may be different than what my children will read but that does not mean we will be learning completely different things.<\/p>\n
As Dr. B started to discuss symbols, it made me think about how interpretations can change depending on the persons own understanding of a word or the symbol itself. As symbols are put together, the order matters. Order can change the whole meaning of the narrative whether it is intentional or not which makes a difference. I wonder how current literature could have shaped our world differently if the slightest words were flipped or changed. How could our lessons have changed? How different would out perspective of the world be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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