"Good literature substitutes for experience which we have not ourselves lived through." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
I think the quote means that literature can give us an experience that we haven't lived in real life. We can read literature instead of living the actual experience and it will feel like we actually did it. You could read a book about someone skydiving and it might feel like you're skydiving if you get into the book and the author tells a lot of detail.
My book relates to this quote because the dog in my story, Buck, is stuck out to live on his own. He is out in Alaska fighting the snow blizzards and other mean dogs. It made me feel like I was out in the cold with him. I don't want to go through that experience in real life. Buck is a brave, strong dog and he is surviving very well.
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Awwe I couldn't read that book it sounds sad, but yeah I agree with your statement about the quote. But the only way you can get into the book is if the author writes the kind of books you like. Well bye buddy ^_^
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