Literature at Lunch

Our table discussion included many great pieces of literature including an inspirational book about Jesus, music lyrics from the band mewithoutYou, and a chapter on theme from The Literary Experience. The book about Jesus encouraged believers to mold their lives after Jesus and try to walk in his ways. What better role model is there than Jesus? The discussion of this challenging while inspiration book not only inspired me in my personal walk, but also implanted a desire to cultivate my life with more Christian literature. The lyrics from mewithoutYou were my choice and honestly my personal favorite, as they pertained to my life in many ways. The name of the song studied at our discussion was “nice and blue part two.” This song accounts for an era of the lead singers life that was less than comfortable as far as emotions are concerned. Tossed in-between his close relationship with his girlfriend and the direction to leave his close companion given by God is the conflict addressed within the song. As this was my conflict for a period of my life I can relate in many ways to these incredible lyrics. The lyrics are not simply to understand but must be “torn-apart” to understand their true meaning. This not only provides for great literary challenge, but also gives the reader an appreciation for their deep meaning. Finally the topics of themes within literature were discussed. I never understood the importance of a theme until the discussion this chapter. When thinking about it weather or not you realize it, your mind is sublimely picking out and looking for themes in literature. Knowing this is true the practice of using specific themes when writing literature can be a useful tool to provoke emotion and sometime impact the readers life in a great way. Altogether the discussion of literature within a small group not only informed me but gave me an appreciation for literature I had not previously had.