“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.” ~ Virginia Woolf. For a spider, the web is the key part of her existence, spun through individual silk, piece by piece it eventually connects together to form a web that provides life for the spider, a new start. Though weaved with care it does have its limitations in strength, weak and miniature bugs will get caught, but the powerful and big will destroy the web. Incidentally, while reading Michael Ondaatje’s “In the Skin of a Lion”, Paulo Coelho’s “The winner stands alone”, I begin to question what the purpose in reading is? Tired of flipping through pages and pages of words I can see a glimmer of light, as the end comes near.
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Lastly, reading connects me with the world around me, which helps me to make connections, gaining a better understanding and find meaning to the story.
Stories are told in countless ways. A spider can tell a story from the web she creates; just by watching the spider weave her web, the species of the spider is shown by the design and steps she takes to shape the web, like learning the personality of a character by reading about his story. Watching her web unfold, unveils mystery and completing missing parts that eventually become a magnificent piece of art like a plot of a book has its introduction, conflict, climax, and resolution that make the reader interested. Almost every story has a main character that the story focuses on that shows more about the character as the story progresses. In Michael Ondaatje’s “In the Skin of a Lion” the main character, Patrick, to me in the beginning was a shy and great man and I could not think of him being someone who would seek revenge. He didn’t share much about himself and …show more content…
A spider web is made through numerous connections, the spider first starts by connecting the ends of the web to a fixed structure to support the web, in the same way allusions and text-to-connections support the understanding of the book, eventually, it is completed by connecting multiple silks simultaneously, like how reading connects different points of a story, filling missing scenes as the story goes on, giving a better understanding of the book. Some stories are easy to read while others are either oversimplified or overcomplicated. Nadine Gordimer’s “Tape measure” was one of the overcomplicated ones for me, the first time I read it, I didn’t connect with anything, so I did not know the story was about a tape worm until Mrs. Patras explained it, then I was able to identify the connections between a tape worm and the text. Michael Ondaatje’s book “In the skin of a lion” was a book told through multifarious stories that required me to link the stories altogether, in order to grab ahold of what is happening in the book. “She listens to the man as he picks up and brings together various corners of the story, attempting to carry it all in his arms” (Ondaatje 1). When I was reading the book, at first I was confused on what was going on in the book due to the fact that, the book is a
Lastly, reading connects me with the world around me, which helps me to make connections, gaining a better understanding and find meaning to the story.
Stories are told in countless ways. A spider can tell a story from the web she creates; just by watching the spider weave her web, the species of the spider is shown by the design and steps she takes to shape the web, like learning the personality of a character by reading about his story. Watching her web unfold, unveils mystery and completing missing parts that eventually become a magnificent piece of art like a plot of a book has its introduction, conflict, climax, and resolution that make the reader interested. Almost every story has a main character that the story focuses on that shows more about the character as the story progresses. In Michael Ondaatje’s “In the Skin of a Lion” the main character, Patrick, to me in the beginning was a shy and great man and I could not think of him being someone who would seek revenge. He didn’t share much about himself and …show more content…
A spider web is made through numerous connections, the spider first starts by connecting the ends of the web to a fixed structure to support the web, in the same way allusions and text-to-connections support the understanding of the book, eventually, it is completed by connecting multiple silks simultaneously, like how reading connects different points of a story, filling missing scenes as the story goes on, giving a better understanding of the book. Some stories are easy to read while others are either oversimplified or overcomplicated. Nadine Gordimer’s “Tape measure” was one of the overcomplicated ones for me, the first time I read it, I didn’t connect with anything, so I did not know the story was about a tape worm until Mrs. Patras explained it, then I was able to identify the connections between a tape worm and the text. Michael Ondaatje’s book “In the skin of a lion” was a book told through multifarious stories that required me to link the stories altogether, in order to grab ahold of what is happening in the book. “She listens to the man as he picks up and brings together various corners of the story, attempting to carry it all in his arms” (Ondaatje 1). When I was reading the book, at first I was confused on what was going on in the book due to the fact that, the book is a