Why is reading essential in every living situation? What is the reason for the enhancement of reading skills, including comprehension, fluency, decoding, encoding, or uncovering the essential meaning of words in the context of setting, mood, conflict, character traits, and theme in an analysis of text, whether books, graphic novels, film, and cultural artifacts. Moreover, reading is the key to interpret economic, political, and social transactions.
How is a reading essential to one's survival? War is imminent today, and people must protect themselves against the following: fraud, deception, avarice, revenge, imprudence, envy, graft, malfeasance, malice, fallacies, including name-calling, false cause, ad populum, hearsay, including political rallies, and satire, and fantasy-news, and pundits and dictators. We must know truth from fiction, especially during presidential elections.