Page 3 - Humanities Final

One of the most important factors that have been taught in this

Humanities course is the overwhelming importance of being able to read

deeply. One of the major concepts that I was never truly able to grasp was

how authors have the capabilities of being able to have a truly deep

meaning that can be hard to find if not read correctly. One prime example

of this is in the movie The Neverending Story, directed by Wolfgang

Pederson. In the movie, a little boy has been told by his father and as a

society as a whole to grow up and to only focus on what truly matters.

However, when the little boy reads the book Fantasia and finds himself

playing a huge roll in the story, he frees himself and is able to let his

imagination run wild. The true importance of deep reading is shown here,

as society only wants us to skim the surface of a text while deep reading

allows us to know more about a text and to personally connect ourselves

with it. As we as a society change how we view reading, we have been

moving away from what makes reading really meaningful, and in the end

thats what matters most.