The Past

Personally I strongly agree with the authors main point in this chapter about how stories from the past strongly influence the current literature of the time. Our society is one that is based strongly on what our forefather's teach us and the stories that are passed on to us. (Hansel and Gretel etc.) This then means that all the writers of today have decided to become authors or poets because of their love for the stories that they heard as children or even as adults. Thusly their writing is directly or indirectly affected by what they have read in the past.