"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become." - C.S. Lewis

Literature is a big part of history. Thanks to literature we can understand our past. We´ve learn so much about the people of the past thanks to literature.  We can learn how humans have changed, what they used to do in the past and how they used to think.  It’s like a prove we have of our past.  And people in the future will be able to see how we live now. They will be able to see how we changed our way of thinking and living. We are changing a lot and is important to keep on track of those changes.

Literature makes us understand everything that is around us. Trough literature we can learn what people think and the reason they think that way, trough literature, we can learn many things about different subjects.  
Thanks to literature people is able to open their mind and develop it. In this way, we can see the world in a different prospective, we can see the world with others people´s eyes.  

I think that to be able to grow up as a person, you have to be able to understand others and not be closed to your own ideas, and that is a door that literature has.
Without literature we wouldn’t be able to understand human nature.