Write an interpretive essay that analyzes literature from the perspective of a quotation. In your essay, interpret the quotation and explain how it applies to literature you have read. Support your viewpoint with evidence from a variety of literary texts that you have read. Include precise language and literary terms. "That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!"

The passage was written by Connie Willis shows a aspect of literature that needs to be analyzed by the people reading it. it talks to the reader and listeners and gives us a message from the past and it gives a general strong idea of exactly what was happening back then. There are many authors that write this type of literature some of the names to Mention Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, or William Shakespeare those are just some of the big names that most people know that right this type of literature. when they write this type of literature it shows what happened in the past and it shows their everyday life and gave us messages. the quote “ trying to tell us about life and death.” It shows the deepness that there is in writings. It shows how the authors can show their deep feelings about certain topics or their everyday lives in writing. It gives them the opportunity to put their personality or spin on life in the writing and show us how their time on Earth was.

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