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"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! "

–passage,
connie willis

read the quotation. then, write two to three sentences interpreting the quotation. explain both the meaning of the quotation and the author’s viewpoint.

In this passage, Willis is expressing that literature is a message from the past telling us about the lives of those before us. We are told that these messages are trying to tell us how we live and how we die based on others experiences. Willis tries to explain this through a concerned, yet passionate tone that urges us, the readers, to learn from the mistakes and the fortunes of the lives of people before us. We can only do this through literature, as it is the gateway to seeing how the world works.

In this quote, the author sees literature as a way to gain experience and avoid making certain mistakes. She views it as instruction from our past messages left for us to use and apply. In the quote it states "Listen to them!" referring to the authors of literature implying that listening could keep us from death.

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