The Perks of Connecting to a Character
According to Nabokov, good readers use an impersonal imagination to read a novel. They should not connect with a character as that could cause bias and cause them to miss out on an author's point in the novel. This is what we have talked about all year, and I believe this to be one hundred percent nonsense. One can enjoy a book without connecting with the main character, but many times it is the author's intention for you to not only sympathize, but empathize with the character. The books that make you think and feel something, those books that we learned to refer to as spine tinglers, those books that stay with you, wandering around in your mind are the ones where you feel a connection to a character, and relate and learn from them.…