What can plot structure reveal to me about the truths I will encounter in literature?

1. Reader response is when you contact yourself with the story. It is also interaction with the literature. Combination with personal experiences with texts makes up meaning. Active readers who have build and sumarized approach to the literature which comes from images we create and this guides it to the meaning.


Steps involved:
1. Read book that you chose
2. Pick and write major events
3. Organize them by plugging in to the plot diagram
4. Connect your self with the text you organized
5. Write down analysis

2. Reader Response helps people to connect self experience with the texts. As we organize the plots by using plot diagram, you see the deep side of the story. It helps you to dig out some information that you could not have found by just glancing over it. With this deep information, you connect it with your own experience. If you try to connect deep information from the texts, you need to dig up your own information from deep inside the heart too. This motivates you to dig up the feeling that was placed deep inside you heart. As you dig up your feeling and what happened to you, it helps you to open eyes to more truth as we read. For example, in the short story, "Marigold", Lizabeth destroyed Ms. Lottie's garden. If you just glance it through, it is totally Lizabeth fault, but if you look deeply, her environment have huge effect on this.

3. It is very important for us to interact with the literature we read because meaning comes from the combination of texts and personal experience. Without connection with text, it is just writing that doesn't mean anything. As it says on the Reader Response, you need to connect yourself with the texts to get the true meaning. If the text doesn't connect with you, than it is no use reading it. It would be very boring because there will be no point of reading it. Also, it won't make any sense if it doesn't connect with you. For example, if scientist was reading about professional science book, it will be interesting and useful for them. However, if you give that book to middle school students, it won't mean anything to him but just a words that are put together.

4. I read short story which is called "The Most Dangerous Game" during the summer. This story is about human hunting game between the general and Rainsford. Rainsford fell out of the ship by the accident and reached the island. In this island, he met general who plays hunting game with human being. At the end, Rainsford kills general after winning the game. In this story I learned that humans' selfishness and cruelty can cause whole destruction of natural life. I thought of this because humans hunt animals for fun. They kill every animal they see for the entertainment. The general shows human cruelty by playing deadly hunting game with the Rainsford. What caught me the most was the last sentence of the book. Rainsford slept in bed peacefully after killing general. This shows that humans' cruelty is so overwhelming that even killing human doesn't effect one's life.