Reading

Reading by Anastasia Gorbunov

I found the modified version of this inspiring picture on 9GAG. It obviously seemed that it had been adjusted somehow before posting. This picture was originally painted by an Russian artist named Anastasia Gorbunov for an competition to encourage reading and literacy. The sentence in the picture can be translated roughly as "Reading is not dangerous. Not reading is." The 9GAG-poster did crop the original text besides adding his/her own sentence which holds different meaning from the original version.

Whatever, the graphic alone is strong enough to represent the way in which books could build up everyone's imagination, especially for children. Although the modern world has be filled with advanced media which have greater ability in conveying information. Books are still good in their orthodox method. When people read books, they are discovering designed scenes, characters and events in their own mind instead of eyes. This grants them private space to draw the unique figments of their imagination based on individual experience. In other words, books do not show things, they describe them...