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    is not a sure-fire way to write the country’s next bestseller—but rather that the best way to write is to do so without seeking out reader response while still drafting. In the words of his mentor‚ “when you write a story‚ you’re telling yourself the story” (King 57). How is someone supposed to tell themselves their story when‚ by sharing and critiquing‚ the readers are constantly influencing it? Most writers aren’t looking to indirectly sabotage their motivation though‚ when they show others their

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    plans to take Edward’s share of land from him through manipulating his father into perceiving Edgar as the bad son and him to be the innocent one‚ informing him of a letter that hints at murdering Gloucester. Gloucester is convinced that the letter was truly of Edgar’s doing‚ or so he thinks‚ and sends Edmund looking for Edgar of who is sent away by Edmund to hide until Gloucester calms down. Edmund enters this scene reciting a soliloquy. In this soliloquy the reader is able to understand why Edmund’s

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    “THE COLDEST WINTER EVER” Reader Response by: Prayogo Algi Utomo 1014025025 Sister Souljah’s style is like no other that I have read‚ her style is so real and honest. I can quickly understand about the novel (The coldest winter ever) I do not have to think twice about this novel like I do in the other novel that have different language from mine. As I read this book I feel like I am in the Winter’s world. Sister Souljah grew up in the underclass urban areas in New York and knows how Winter feels

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    Reader Response Criticism: William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” “A Rose for Emily” was written in first person point of view. The narrator is never given a name‚ but it is apparent to the reader that the narrator is one of the townspeople. This is evident in the opening of the story when the narrator exposits that‚ “our whole town went to her funeral” (Faulkner‚ “Rose” 90). This story tells the tale of Miss Emily Grierson in psychological order‚ beginning with her funeral (as a flashback) and

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    resides with the reader; a statement that the school of Russian Formalism would disagree with. Eichenbaum‚ Schlovsky and other scholars would argue that the audience has little to no relation with the text and therefore‚ cannot be a vessel of meaning for a literary work. For formalists‚ the form of the literary work creates the meaning that readers desperately seek. However‚ there is another school of literary theory that would argue against the Formalist thought; the school of reader-response theory

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    comprehension skills of reading materials on the printed page will be successful. In this regard being a grade I teacher who is concerned for the development of my pupils‚ I was discovered the following Intervention Programs for “Slow and Non Readers” Which I believed could make a difference in their comprehension skills and reading abilities. I hope that my humble efforts and noble cause will be put into practice by the other and will have considerable results to my objective which is to

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    Expository Writing 6 November 2013 Reader Response to “For Whom the Bell Tolls” John Donne’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is a very deep poem‚ and it’s difficult to understand if you only read it once. It focuses on how all humans have a connection to one another; if one person dies‚ the entire population is affected. In 1623‚ Donne was extremely ill with malarial fever‚ and he wrote the meditation during recovery. He observed that every death diminishes the fabric of humanity. He wrote about the

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    Readers Response to John Updike’s A&P In the summer of 1961 we meet Sammy. Sammy is a 19-year-old clerk at the local A&P in a small town‚ and one day a few girls walk in‚ in their bikinis. Everyone in the store either stares at them lustfully or averts their eyes uncomfortably. When the manager gets back he scolds the girls and tells them that they cannot come back in there dressed that way again. So Sammy quits. I personally enjoy this story because of the dated wordplay and the character

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    Reader-Response Criticism: Langston Hughes’ Dream Boogie T Wilkins ENG 125 Introduction to Literature Instructor M. XXXXXXXXX May 22‚ 2011 Literature‚ no matter what the topic of form it comes in‚ has the ability to raise issues‚ spark thought/imagination‚ and/or draw out emotions that have been buried deep within us as people. It is expected‚ from the authors‚ that readers will form opinions and criticisms for their works. Be it that the readers’ emotions parallel those of the writer

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    Reader Response Chapter 1-6 Before I actually opened the book‚ I knew that 1984 by George Orwell‚ Brave New World by Aldous Huxley‚ and We by Yevgeny Zamyatin are the three most famous anti-utopian novels. Utopia sounds like a nice word to me‚ I was expecting a “brave new world” before I opened the book. However‚ the descriptions in the book crashed my imagination. What a world it is! I was surprised that where’s no emotion in the world. Children are not raised by their parents

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