A Prayer for Listening and Reading
Reading also gave one confidence in and familiarity with language, which was a necessary tool for forming those nearly constant comments on what one had observed. Grandmother had her doubts about the radio, although she conceded that the modern world moved at such a pace that keeping up with it defied the written word; listening after all, required some effort, and the language one increasingly stumbled over in newspapers and magazines. But she drew the line at television. It took no effort to watch-it was infinitely more beneficial to the soul, and to the intelligence, to read or to listen-and what she imagined there was to watch on TV appalled her; she had, of course, only read about it (Irving 257).
The knowledgeable novel A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving brought up a superior topic which can be debated either way. The point Irving’s trying to get through to his readers is the significance of reading, writing, and listening as opposed......
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