Or take West Side Story. The text never states directly Group rivalries can have terrible effects on individual lives, but most viewers would agree the musical can teach that principle. Delight is what sets literature apart. Literary experiences are always imbued with a playful spirit. The little booklets that prepare people to take their driver s license examination do not provide a literary experience.
Some TV commercials do.
Taster s Choice instant coffee, for example, ran a series of ads over the course of several months that amounted to one-minute episodes in a romantic story. An attractive woman and an attractive and slightly younger man discovered they shared a taste for Taster s Choice, and eventually their relationship blossomed into romance. Obviously the writers of the driving booklet do not invite us to get emotionally or imaginatively involved the way the writers of the commercials did. However, writers don t have to give the invitation. Readers can have a literary experience with a workaday text by approaching in a playful spirit.