Discuss the importance of the study of literature.

Making reference to at least two (2) works we have covered this semester, discuss the importance of the study of literature.The works we used this semester include: Young Goodman brown by Nathaniel Hawthorn, the gift of the Magi by O’ Henry, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? By Joyce Carol Oates, A&P by John Updike, the Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe, Girl by Jamaica Kincaid, Everyday Use by Alice Walker, Strawberry Spring by Stephen King, A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway, The Management of Grief by Bharati Mukherjee, Sure Thing by David Ives, Classyass by Caleen Sinnette Jennings, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick, O Captain! My Captain by Walt Whitman, “O Me! O Life!” by Walt Whitman, “Piano Man” by Billy Joel, “Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe, the raven by Edgar Allan Poe, the bells by Edgar Allan Poe, a raisin in the sun.You need not cite from the sources of the (2) works we read. No source needed.