Literature Challenge: Your Entries

Literature Challenge: Your Entries

Here is a compilations of submissions made for our Literature Challenge. Look forward to receiving yours!!

#3: This could be YOURS….

#2: Satyam writes:

A longstanding favorite is Ms. Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”, which I have read in different phases of life: middle school, after college, and thereafter. The book is told through the eyes of Scout, and she proves to be a most worthy narrator and a great character. Here is the central quote that gives birth to the title of the text:

“Atticus said to Jem one day, “I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. “Your father’s right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”  – Scout

#1: Annie writes us:

So many books have brought me so much joy and insight into the universe, but perhaps the quote that stands by me in the hardest of times is this, from the Fellowship of the Rings. Frodo despairs about the task he has accepted but Gandalf counsels him:

“‘I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.’”

So simple and powerful, and said by many, but for me Gandalf says it most compassionately…not a platitude but a recognition of the uninvited challenges we face and our opportunity to decide how we face them.

– From the Fellowship of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien