knowledge of culture and society. This knowledge is not gained easily through other sources; it is too complicated to be captured by any single piece of expository writing. Language is associated with culture. That is, language is the carrier of cultural messages. As such, literature is very significant when employed in teaching a language. Literature is culture. Narrations are often built upon the perspective of one main character who is experiencing the pains of growing up. This makes reading literary texts a drastically different experience from that of reading explanatory articles, the most commonly seen type of literature in ESL reading. Undoubtedly, "the English curriculum is a place for enjoying and reflecting on . . . cultural resources, debating their values, and imagining and designing . . . futures" (Goodwyn, 2009: 12). In this way, literature prepares good source and context to contextualize these activities. A good story book not only informs ESL students the situation and development of an event; it also connects readers to the event to gain an insight, rather than an overview, of English culture and society. English teachers should acquaint themselves with language use to develop their own competence and understand language as a social phenomenon, and not just as an exclusive branch of learning. It is literature that creates this acquaintance in English teachers. As the teachers find out this point, they transform the classrooms as the stage in which there is real practice of communicative language. In other words, teachers should consider language as entailing social acceptability; that is, they should look to English classroom as carrying resemblance with the outside language. Besides, non- native students need to be exposed to various literary texts in order to be able to consider the others' culture in their international communication. Therefore, the non-native learners' curriculum should include teaching literary texts or literature to facilitate such international communication for the students. Literary texts explore the lives of English speaking people and their . By connecting religion, superstition and folktales together; that is, by culture, students explore hidden facets of English speaking culture. By sharing their reading experiences, students realized how differently people approach and respond to the same literary work. Through their approaches to literary texts, students find the social and historical contexts of the event and become familiar with culture. The piece of literary work entertains and opens the eyes of students as they see how other people think, interpret, and act on a variety of things, especially those things that ESL students are familiar with.