Monday, January 26, 2009

Chapter 25 Don't Read with Your Eyes

Explain the meaning of the title of this chapter.

7 comments:

Beas-Girl said...

I think this chapter is saying that you may not alwasy be interested in the subject that you are reading about, so sometimes you ahev to pretend you are someone else who cares about the subject:the character providing the action. You ahev to read whats going on like you are someone doing somethign in teh book. If you can feel what they feel, you will get more meaning fomr teh book. The example he gives in teh beginning is about someone preparing a meal. to you, its just food, but to the ladies preparing it, it is everythign they ahev worked hard for to impress the people they are serving for.

walker said...

I think that when the author says "don't read with your eyes" he is refering to not just "read" but to take yourself into the story that you are reading. I think you can only truly enjoy a story if you sort of put yourself in the story. Sometimes I find myself reading but not really reading and when you get down to the bottom of the page you have no clue what you just read. So think about what you are actually reading and put yourself in the story.

Big_daddy_alex said...

this chapter is saying to not just read the the story but get animated with it visualize Ur self within the story become the story... play it out in your head. the only way i read and understand the story is to make it in my head like a movie...i know that sounds weird but it works.

b.buurman said...

I think what he means is not to just blindly read it without actually taking the information in. Actually put yourself in the story and make yourself feel what the people in the story are feeling. You can't truly take anything away from a story if you don't care about it, so you have to make yourself care about it. If you can piture yourself as these people you make yourself care about whats going on.

Lexi said...

I think the meaning of the title of this chapter is that if you read something, try to relate with it, such as thinking in the time it was written...Think about how people thought when they were alive in that time...Read the story as if you are reading it from their perspective and think about everything like they would have thought about it...Think of what was important to that time period and why certain things were done certain ways...

faithe said...

I think he means to actually visualize and realize what is going on with everything. Put yourself into the story and picture yourself as one of the characters, get more involved with what the story is. It's like an escape for the reader

christina :) said...

I think what he means when he says "dont read with you eyes" i think hes just trying to say not to just read. When i do that i don't get anything out of it. I might be reading it, but not taking in what it is actually saying. He wants you to be able to put yourself in the shoes of the character, and realize whats really going on. To actually "read" it.