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Pleаse reаd the twо аrticle pоsted belоw and then write a thesis statement in response to the following prompt: Do you agree or disagree with the authors’ position that reading for pleasure is necessary for a successful society, and why or why not? Article #1: "The Importance of Reading" by Dana Gioia, published on page 22 Reading has declined among every group of adult Americans: every age group, educational group, income group, region, and race. . . . This has been going on for twenty years, but the trends are getting worse, and the worst declines are among younger American adults between the ages of 18 to 24. In the last twenty years, younger American adults have gone from being the people in our society who read the most to the people who read the least. In sum, we now see that we are producing the first generation of educated people, in some cases college graduates, who no longer become lifelong readers. This is disturbing, though, because literature awakens, enlarges, enhances, and refines our humanity in a way that almost nothing else can. Namely, we tend, by our very nature, to be encased in our own egos. What literature does–nowhere more powerfully than in fiction (the novel and the short story)–is put us in the inner lives of other people or in the dailyness of their psychological, social, economic, and imaginative existence. This makes us feel, more intensely probably than anything else, the reality of other points of view, of other lives. That is obviously in jeopardy if we now have a society in which the majority of adults are no longer reading. Article #2: "The Value of Literature"By Carol Jago, published on page 50 Of all types of writing, writing about literature may seem the least practical. Who apart from scholars and English majors analyzes poetry after the age of 18? Why do teachers devote so much effort to developing an arcane skill? Because writing about literature disciplines the mind. It challenges students to look closely into what they read and express clearly and powerfully what they find there. Meeting this challenge entails more than identifying correct answers to teachers’ questions. It requires deep reading and analytical thinking—skills that will serve students well whatever their futures may hold. Namely, to thrive in the real world, students need to be able to do more than Twitter. They need to be able to develop extended arguments that demonstrate a careful analysis of complex ideas. They need to be able to critique a brave new world in which reading is reduced to skimming and scanning websites, in which templates replace writing, in which the arts are extracurricular, and in which culture is reserved for the few rather than the many. If we are not careful, in a generation, we will have made our students unprepared for almost everything that this great nation once used to value—independence, freethinking, and the pursuit of happiness. Part of our responsibility as teachers is to help students discover that the pursuit of happiness does not begin and end with the purchase of a new car. . . . As we move through the twenty-first century, let’s be careful not to lose, in the name of progress and preparedness, the texts and habits of mind that have brought us this far. *NOTE: You are NOT writing a complete paragraph or essay here. Instead, you are drafting a one-sentence thesis statement in response to the prompt: Do you agree or disagree with the authors’ position that reading for pleasure is necessary for a successful society, and why or why not? Be sure to demonstrate the characteristics of an effective thesis statement.