One of my earliest memories of literature was when my mom would read me Henry Huggins books.  She always put me in the reading clubs over the summers with the library and Henry Huggins was my favorite.   My grandma also would always read this one book about a spotted puppy dog to me also. Every time I went over there we would get that book out and read it.  Another memory is when I was young I hated dolls and the only thing I used to really love to do was read hooked on phonics books.

My most recent memories are probably with leadership books.  I take an RA class for credit and we have to read books and pick out what we can use in real life.  Also in my business courses we also read books like that especially in business communications class.  I like to read leadership books, but I also love fiction.

The most significant literary text I've read is of course the Bible, but also Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre.  I took an Ap literature course in high school and those were the only two books out of the seven we read that I really liked.  I never really liked Shakespeare because of the language used, and Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre were the only two books that I actually wanted to read and understand what it was saying.  So while reading them I actually learned more how to study the words and see what they mean.

One way I think literature matters is that through authors who lived in different times, we can see how life was back then through their eyes.  We can learn practices that they did or what different clothing styles were worn and things such as that.  Some ways I feel literature doesn't matter is when people put themselves into the spot of a character and afterward they wish their life was like that.  Such as every girl wants a Mr. Darcy, and because girls only imagine that perfect story and ending they put their expectations really high and struggle to realize that sometimes that's not what their story is supposed to be.