I am choosing to do my blog about “Reading for Transformation.” The first step it says is to begin prayer with silence. I think this is a good start because it really allows you to have a chance to be able to clear your mind. I think this is a good start to start a lot of your days off with. Just before doing most things or opening your mouth and you were just silent might change a lot of decisions that you are about to make. You would defiantly have more time to think about things and not regret a lot of decisions that are going to take place. The next few steps I believe can really help you. It says that you are supposed to slow read and then read out loud. I know when doing the onion experiment in class this really helped me better understand the text in more details. Plus it really gave me a better over view of the text. Just reading things one time can really affect the way you see the whole story. I think by taking some of these steps that you will really be able to grow for literature because most of it to my understanding is just your thoughts and opinions about text. You are never clearly wrong on certain things or ideas that come to your head. I believe knowing this will help people like literature as well. This quote I really liked that stood out to me the most was, “The encounter described here goes beyond the accumulation of new data or the enjoyment of aesthetic experience, to focus attention upon the reader’s reappropriation of self.” Basically what I got out of this was that you are always going to have your own opinion. I think this is a really good thing because it allows people to really be able to focus on what they think without getting criticized and be told they are doing something wrong.
I like that you saw the connection between this essay and our "onion experiment."
ReplyDeleteMeaning is always personalized with art. But that doesn't mean that "anyone's opinion is as good as anyone else"--for instance, if you said what you say here about this essay and I said that the essay was about green space monkeys, your "opinion" (grounded in what's actually in the essay) would be much better than mine. But what it does mean is that you have to read for yourself and allow yourself to have ideas about meaning. I think you get that. And I think you're right that knowing that might help people who don't like reading literature to like it better.
(By the way, you've still not turned off the "comment verification" on your blog. Go under "comments"--one of the tabs within "settings"-- and select "no" for the option "Show word verification for comments?" Thanks.)