Parent Involvement in Literature Related Activities

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‘It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth,’ quoted Gao Xingjian, a famous Chinese novelist. Personally, this quote really reflects my thought on what true literature is. Most stories and literatures come from emotions authors ever experience. It is because of that, that some works are too great they encompass our lives, influencing us from deep within. Moreover than that, children’s literature is a powerful tool to influence children’s beliefs, faith and their views on life. First of all, children’s literature is defined as any material that is written and produced for children and young adults. Those materials may be with the intention of being informational or a mere entertainment, both are equally acceptable. It includes all fiction and non-fiction, literary and artistic genres as well as physical formats. Obviously in each and every school, especially in our land Malaysia, literature has become a compulsory subject to be taught. Supposedly, children should be familiarized with literature materials as early as they can read. This is because literature opens your mind and let it wanders to even the most impossible utopias. This, in return will make children become a more independent thinker than the others. Because of this, parents should always encourage children to read, and more appropriately to enjoy their literature materials. The story that I have chosen is the novel ‘The Enchanted Wood’ written by Enid Blyton. First of all, the story centers around three siblings, which are Joe, Beth and Frannie. They just moved in, following their father from the city to one lovely secluded country. There, they live near a wood called ‘The Enchanted Wood’. Every night they would go off to the wood and climb up the ‘Faraway Tree’. The Faraway Tree is a very huge and tall, one of a kind tree that in it
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