Ashlee+Explanation+of+Literature

//Human Condition: The positive and negative aspects of existence as a human being; inevitable events such as birth, childhood, adolescence, love, sex, reproduction, aging and death .//

====Literature uses story telling, through books or movies, to express the nature and culture of humans. Human condition is shown through different components of literature like; expressions (genres), characters (protagonist/antagonist), setting, time frame, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, conflict, dialogue, theme and point of view.====

= Expressions: = Just like each of these little faces represent a different emotion; literature has expressions that represent different genres. Genres can include: romance, mystery, crime, fantasy, adventure, erotica, horror, ect.

Different genres include stories about different human conditions. For example; a romance story would most likely include some of the human conditions listed above like love, sex and reproduction. Any genre could show any of the human conditions in its own way, however, certain genres are better at representing certain conditions. Different genres can also show different aspects of the same human condition. Death, for example could be used in any genre but it would show different things about death. A romance story that included death would show how loved ones dealt with the death of someone they cared about. Mystery and crime literature would show how people outside of a death might react and deal with it. Adventure stories might use death as inspiration for a character or to give the adventure purpose. The human condition can be anything but it is essentially the genre that shows the desired aspect of that condition.

= Characters: =



Without characters there is no story. Characters are essential to literature, what story can you tell without something to tell about?

Characters are very good tools to use in literature to show aspects of being human. Since almost everything in a story is related to characters, they are essential to telling a story. In stories there are protagonists and antoginists. Protagonists are the main characters and antiognists are the characters that cause colflicts with the main characters. Human conditions can be shown through the conflicts and interaction between the characters. Different characters may even show different views of a particular condition. For example; childhood. One character may have had a rich happy childhood while another might have had a poor hard one. Through the different characters the reader can see the different ways someone may have grown up and what they may have went through. Also, different characters have different personalities and ways of thinking. Those aspects and characteristics of the characters realate to the choices they make which ultimatly shows that nature of mankind.

= Conflict: =

Every story has conflict in it; whether it is man v. man, man v. nature or man v. himself. Literature uses conflict to tell a story.

Individuals true colors are often shown in times of stress and trouble. Conflict usually pushes people to their limits showing what they are truly capable of. Literature uses conflict to show what mankind is truly capable when faced with events out of their control. For example a conflict with love may show someone to be strong enough to walk away and find someone knew or strong enough to fight for what they believe in. A conflict with aging inside oneself may cripple someone or push them to do things with their life they never dreamed of. It could even motivate someone to become a better person or cause them to become bitter about something that is unchangable.

Gone With the Wind