---E.M. Forster
What does this quote mean? Provide a valid interpretation of this statement, agree or disagree with the statement as you have interpreted it, and support your opinion using specific references. Don't forget to comment on someone else's opinion.
How does this quote relate to the author study that we are doing in class?
Make text connections.
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elijah andeson i agree with the statement but i feel it dosen't stands by everyone.
wayne henry
i think it means that the quote means literature brings out the smartness in u
i agree
I think this quote means that having good reading and writing skills, along with better vocabulary, benefits how smart someone and the way it apperas in a certain person's mind. Good literature does not really benefit our curiosity as much as our intelligence and imagination. It is also not discovered by curiosity either. I agree with this quote because it speaks the truth literature benefits us all.
-stephane francois 281
Shae Davsi Class 281
I think that this quote means that when you read a good book that is interesting to you, it leaves you wondering, as in, it enlarges your imagination to picture what is or what did go on in the book. As for appealing to our intelligence, literature, where you can find by reading, will broden your vocabulary and will allow you to use proper grammar. " Not merely to our curiosity", to me this means that, even though literature might have us so fascinated in it that we have no choice but to imagine it and learn something by it, when you read the literature, it might not always have an ending that clarifies everything that you just read, sometimes it will leave you looking for more answers or more information, BUT, that is only sometimes.
This quote compares to Walter Dean Myers' writing pieces because, when you read his writing pieces, sometimes you get caught up in all the specific details and you just have to sit back and imagine it in your head, stanza by stanza to fully grasp an understanding of his work. To me Walter Dean Myers' writing pieces are like a puzzle, you have to put together all juicy information that he gives you piece by piece, which you can do by imagining, and then after you have came up with the whole concept for what the writing piece is about, your left with both, more knowledge and head full with thoughts and imaginations.
I believe the meaning of this poem means that knowing good literature skills or to have a proper knowledge of writing and reading skills that it would matter more to your imagination and intelligence than curiosity.I agree with this quote because it speaks the truth when it says that good literature benefits your imagination and intelligence more than curiosity because good literature increases how much you know and opens a different point of view with your imagination.
This connects to the author study because over the days we have been learning skills to enrich our intelligence by learning another form of literature and it also benefits or imagination because knowing these new forms of literature it's creates a different part of our imagination that can help us understand poems from WDM.
Jacqueline Alexander
281
good literature appeals to our intelligence and imagination, not merely to our curiosity by E.M. Forster is about benefits how smart someone and the way it apperas in a certain person's mind "We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions ..... This is silly: No matter how good our schools, American engineers won't be six times ...... their resiliency score, their curiosity score, their integrity score, This quote compares to Walter Dean Myers' writing pieces because, when you read his writing pieces, sometimes you get caught up in all the specific details and you just have to sit back and imagine it in your head, stanza by stanza to fully an understanding of his work.
I think this quote means that having good reading and writing skills, along with better vocabulary, benefits how smart someone and the way it apperas in a certain person's mind. Good literature does not really benefit our curiosity as much as our intelligence and imagination. It is also not discovered by curiosity either. I agree with this quote because it speaks the truth literature benefits us all.
This connects to the author study because over the days we have been learning skills to enrich our intelligence by learning another form of literature and it also benefits or imagination because knowing these new forms of literature it's creates a different part of our imagination that can help us understand poems from WDM.
julien johnson
class:281
I think this quote would mean that when you pick out a book you should look at it from both ends. When you're reading a good book your curiosity shouldn't lead through the book or passage, you have to think about the text and using reading strategies. Start questioning the events as a philosopher, start trying to relate to the passage, and learn the characters as if you were their friend or a phycologist. A good literature should drive your thoughts into a spiral. With curiosity you have no real instrest in what you reading and you loll around.
Cassandra Calixte
281
I think i really agree with Shae. Her comparison really gives more detail to her explanation i can say.
i think that this means that you have to read the passage in a way that you can imagine it and too imagine it u have to use your intelligence. i would agree with this quote because u have to understand something well to read it and you have to use your intelligence and you have to use your imagination. i kinds disagree with Cassandra because i don't think you have to look at it at moor than one point u just have to under stand what you are imagining
"Good literature appeals to our intelligence and imagination, not merely to our curiosity." I believe that this quote by Edward Morgan Forster refers to the opinion that it's not what particularly interests you that makes you choose a book. No, it's what you can "handle" is what makes you choose. Your instinct instructs you to choose, and that is a half-truth at best.
There isn't any simple suggestion in your head that tells you, "Maybe I should read this book." Any mental examination can show that every part of one's brain is constantly working because of how throughly it is processing the given information. With such knowledge, it can be assumed that curiosity takes a pivotal role in deciding which one of the books to read. Wouldn't be stupid to sideline your curiosity? While I praise Forster's work, I disapprove of his thinkings.
I think this quote means that good vocabulary and comprehension effects our intelligence. Not just always wondering about something. Literature also appeals to your imagination because you will see things in a new way. I agree with this quote because it shows literature will help us. I also agree with Stephanes interpretation of the quote.
Akeem Wilson 281
i think that the quote "good literature appeals to our intelligence and imagination,not merely to our curiosity" means that good books or the best pieces of writing come from intelligence and imagination and not grom curiosity. walter dean myers writing pieces did not come from what he taught would happen but what he imagined would happen or maybe it did happen and with his intellegence he simply added more class to the event.
ernica sanon 281
This relates to WDM because the literature we are learning, we'll comprehend. It will then benefit our thinking.
Akeem Wilson 281
Steven Verdiau
I think that this means that good literature is supposed to make you learn something and inspire you imagination, not make you wonder what it means. I also think that it means that possesing the skills to grasp good literature will help you understand things better. This is similar to what we are doing in class right now because reading Walter Dean Myers's work let me know some things that I never knew or understood. Also, reading his poems made me imagine all of the posible meanings to them. I was always thinking of different meaning to them and I never went blank once. There was always something deep within the poems. I totally agree with this quote.
I think this quote means that a good piece of literature makes you think and explore the inner mind more . None like boring or uninteresting literature that makes you sleep or that's makes you uninterested in reading anymore . Careem Spence 281
I think that this quote is saying
that reading not only a book but
other forms of literature can is
beneficial to your to your
knowledge and imagination.Reading
can sometimes help you reach new heights of knowledge which can
expand ones imagination.Like I
always say "ones imagination is only limited by their knowledge"
Reading a few books can not hurt
anyone but only strenghten ones
knowledge.You will have to read in
the future and there is no time like the present to prepare.
A man/woman can not just read
a book because they are simply curios because of what they see on
the cover but because they want to
learn from it.Curiosity is not going to get anyone anywhere in life but intelligence or knowledge
will because "curiosity kills the cat" it does not help it survive.
Just like the author study in class
is helping us to learn more about
Walter Dean Myers.We are not just
doing this because we are intersted
in just readig we are interested in
learning his writing style and the
topics he writes about etc.I agree
with this quote.I also like the way
Jacqueline stated her interpretation.
Isaac Gurajena 281
I think this quote means that literature makes you smart. Also, it is an inspiration. It gives u an imagination and gives u new ideas. good literature is clear, and therefore there shouldn't be any curiosity. This quote is similar to the work in class because we're wprking on Walter Dean Myers. WDM writes good literature. i became more intelligent as i learned new stuff from his literature. His literature is so descriptive that I was able to imagine everything.
For example, in "the baddest dog in Harlem' i was able to picture all of the violence. I agree with yvenalie because she interprets it. steven also interpreted well.
Shannon Emmanus 281
I think the statement "good literature appeals to our intelligence and imaginatio,not merely to our curiositty,"means that good books and good writing pieces are good because of our imagination and intelliegence. i think it means we cant be curious about something and make a book on it if we dont have intelligence or imagination.
i agree with stephane's response.
Hey my name is Junior Elinor in class 281. I agree with this quote because good literature does appeal to our intelligence and imagination.Writing & reading (literature)does give us good intelligence and it makes us intelligent.The part " merely to our curiosity" is corrent because it doesnt help us with our curiosity because it doesnt benefit us as people.But i kinda feel like this quote doesnt stand by everyone because everyone isnt the same.
I think the quote "Good literature appeals to our intelligence and imagination, not merely to our curiosity" means that good literature makes us gain knowledge or makes us form ideas from it and if literature just leaves curious about what its really about, its not good. I agree with this quote because if I read something that makes me gain knowledge or form an idea I would actually gain something from it, but if I just read something that I don't really understand it, I gain anything from it.
This quote is related to the author study we have in class because when I read something from Walter Dean Myers I gain knowledge whether it is from learning a new word or learning a new style of writing. As I read the quote by E.M. Forster I was reminded of the poem "Harlem" because as I read it I learned new things about how Harlem used to be and the different things that happened.
I don't understand what elijah32696 means about the quote not standing by everyone. I also don't think he answered the question.
Daniel Jackson 281
Christopher Ferguson 281
I belive this quote means that those who read proper literature can gain knowledge and can expand thier imagination as well a
nd these aspects are diplayed in the writing those who read proper literature. Kyler Gudge 281
I belive that this quote means that good literature feeds our curiosity and imagination and make us think about what we belive and what using your knowlege to think about why someone in the story did what they did and what way you the reader would have done.That what I think the quote is about.
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