Learning How To Read A Book Analysis

At age five, we learn the alphabet, learn songs to remember each letter, and know it backwards and forwards. At age 6, we are learning sight words and reading small sentences and passages. By age 7, we are taught how to read very simple stories, which eventually turn into small chapter books, then larger books, until we're eventually reading great novels written by the greatest minds in history, such as Aristotle, Victor Hugo, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mark Twain, and Jules Verne.

However, once we reach a certain point, we stop learning how to read, and become satisfied with simply understanding words and phrases. This is rather unfortunate, as there is no end to what we can learn about reading. Reading will be around for as long as this world is here, and there are still people to read. …show more content…
How do you delve into a story, and envelope your mind into it, making it so that you can understand every aspect of the story and the characters in it? How do you understand something so vast and knowledge-filled as a book, without going into overwhelming detail and flipping out because it's just so much information?

First, you have to clear your mind of everything you know. Don't think about this world and its logic and rules. Forget the laws of logic and reality, and remember that this is fiction. Not fact. No one can possibly be as wonderful as prince charming, which is what makes the story so enchanting. If we picked apart every story and found everything wrong with it in the context of our world, then we would never enjoy a single sentence of fictional writing.

As someone reading fictional literature, it is your job to remove the book from the context of your life, and place it into the context of the fictional realm, removing biased opinions and boring facts. The point of fiction is to remove oneself from the dull and boring gray of this world, and go into one full of color and