What are the importants in studying literature?

Question

What are the importants in studying literature?

Answer 1

Literature is about people, relationships, conflict, love, desire, feelings, hopes, dreams, life.  Through reading literature, we learn about life, the world around us, and ourselves.  We also learn about problem solving and communication.  How much you learn from a book also depends on the quality and depth of the book.

Answer 2

Well, literature is a response to the issues, desires, wants, needs, and feelings of a social era. Thus, it is very important that you understand that it is the feelings of a character v. his/her environment that are an extremely important issue in literature.

9 times out of 10 this usually happens in any novel.