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My earliest memories of literature would be when my dad would read to to my sister and I stories about animals that would teach us how to read and state the alphabet. Another early memory of literature was when I began to read my first book series called The Animorphs. I was hooked to the series since at the elementary school I attended they would have a once a year book fair that the English teachers would make us go to in order for the students to get interested in books outside the required texts for school. Nevertheless, my most recent memories of literature would the reading of Macbeth in my senior high school year. This stands out the most due to the amount of time we spent as a class analyzing its theme, plot, and author. We even watched several movies on Macbeth that gave the class a better visual on the story. The most significant text I have ever read, besides the Bible, would have to be the Army field manual 3-21.8 since I have to use the military doctrine presented with in the book in order to succeed in a military career. As an officer in the Army I need to succeed in my warrior tasks so as to lead soldiers into combat successfully. Literature matters greatly in ways of giving people a way to see what others have to say about facts, ideas, and imaginations. Some ways it matters is that literature can be used as a form of entertainment or to find out what is going out in the world. However there are ways in that literature does not matter. In the realm of entertainment, literature is just a means of a small distraction from the cares of this life so as to ease its burdens. Also literature used as a form of entertainment does not get a job done nor does it get a job.