<p>Ok. Here goes my “advanced” essay.
Topic: Should books represent world as it is or as it should be?</p>
<p>According to the Old Russian folk wisdom, “Book is the best gift”. Books are our sources of the knowledge, examples of a peaceful and yet a severe life. There are different kinds of books; the most prevalent are: mythology and fiction, science, and others. The majority of books about mythology and fiction, portraits unreal creatures, events, or other inscrutable issues; consider characters of those books: Hercules, the monster killer; Asclepius, the first doctor; Dionysus, the creator of Greek fraternities. These types of books are more likely tend to make our life more panache, but, in the same time, these books about mythical characters are only the “cover” to the “real word”. Thus, we can conclude that this is metaphor or in other words, simile; as demonstrated by scientific research, children in kid garden or in first five grades of school can see only unreal things; the real meaning is concealed for the humans in this age. </p>
<p>Consider the another major type of books—science. In this case, these books are less likely to reflect or conceal our real word. For instance, let’s take into account my school physics encyclopedia. Unlike fiction books, which represent life problems, it represents direct rules of physical world, like sphere, height, weight, speed. Hence, we can see light that, despite any controversies, science books are very important: engineering, medicine, ecology, chemistry, history, all these subparts of science are based on this.</p>
<p>The nineteenth-century moralist’s view was that in general, any kind of the book should represent the world as it should be, without problems, without conflicts, without evils. To prove that this claim is too vague or too dispute to verify, let’s analyze Gomes’s “Iliad Odyssey”. For the first time, we could relate it to “unreal world”, a world that doesn’t have any similarities with tangibility; but it’s not as it actually is. Every book has its meanings, lessons, suggestions, extrications from confounded life problems. And what is the most important is that these all issues are directly connected with actual world: the same problems, the same conflicts, the same characters. Books that show the ideal world, nullifies the main reason why we are using them, because, according to scientists, books’ job is to provide help, extrication, and foster in the severe and draconian reality. Therefore, the claim that every book should represent the paradise, the result of all learned lessons, is too skeptic, too harsh, and maybe somewhere misadjusted. We don’t need to know how it will be in paradise; we need the road that shows us how we can achieve it…</p>