"That's what literature is. It’s the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!" –Passage,
Connie Willis
I need a thesis statement connecting this quote to other pieces of literature of similar idea of this quote it also needs to be specific and clear

In the quote "That's what literature is. It’s the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!" The author is saying that she sees literature as messages from the past, people who wrote them trying to tell us about life and death, she is trying to say that reading can be a way to hear them telling us so we don't make future mistakes.

Explanation:

adverb is the answer i believe.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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