In your post, answer the following questions:
What does literature offer an individual?
How has the importance of reading changed from earlier eras (pre-digital/audio/visual media) to our present day? Do you think we read differently now than we did in prior generations?
Do you think Clugston's quote is valid? How have perceptions regarding the value of literature changed, if at all?
What causes people's perceptions regarding the value of literature to change?