Quote Response

“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

I think the speaker means literature plays a big role in our lives. The speaker is saying that literature makes our world interesting. When they say "Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it" they're saying that books and writing make our world what it is, not describe it.

I just finished Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. I am now reading the second story Through The Looking-Glass. This quote relates to both stories because each story is about over coming boredom. In the beginning of the story Alice is just sitting with her sister, bored. She see's the rabbit pull a watch out of his coat. By Alice over coming her boredom she goes down the hole. "It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides" fits best with my stories because it's saying that daily life needs literature, and in Alice in Wonderland daily live needs a purpose and creativity.