Readers have been responding to what they have read and experienced since the dawn of literature. For example‚ we have Plate and Aristotle who were concerned about audience responses and how plays generated pity and fear on them. Still‚ the audience or readers were passive. After the appearance of reader response theory‚ readers are activated. They involve themselves to elaborate the text‚ fill in the gaps and enact their experiences with the text. Most reader response critics can be divided into
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The Great Gatsby was a good book. It was about a seemingly educated‚ wealthy‚ and perfect man who in the end‚ ended up actually living a scandalous life. He gained his wealth by illegal activities. There are still people today that gain their wealth by scamming and committing illegal actions. I felt sorry for Gatsby in the end‚ because he was madly in love with Daisy and he ended being killed for something he didn’t commit. Tom lied about who hit his lover because he was mad at Gatsby about the
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does not offer a large role in the entire plot‚ and instead we see him more as an observer than a main character. Gatsby‚ on the other hand‚ and the other characters around him make up the story of the “great” American Dream. When Nick‚ “... thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock”‚ he alluded towards the mystery and the goal Gatsby‚ and in other words‚ society tried to reach. The decay of the light and the diminishing of his house were allusions
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Reader Response In the short story Bluebeard‚ there is a man who is married to an average house wife. The main part of this story is how Bluebeard leaves his house for a week or so for some reason. This results in leaving his wife all alone in Bluebeards house‚ where his wife has not seen a whole lot of it. Bluebeard gave her a key and said there is a secret closet in the house that you are permitted from. So the wife goes on searching and does not think about that one closet. However‚ her curiosity
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Tracy Hall Professor Thompson ENGL 310 Reader Response Essay January 26‚ 2011 Why Aren’t Women Funny? In his Vanity Fair essay‚ “Why Women Aren’t Funny” (2007)‚ author Christopher Hitchens purports that women are not as funny as men because they don’t have to be; that men must be funny in order to attract women‚ but women don’t need to be humorous to be appealing to men because they are already alluring by simply being women. In the essay‚ Hitchens comes off as quite the chauvinist
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Into the Wild Reader Response Into the Wild‚ written by Jon Krakauer‚ is a memoir about how living in the wilderness and how Chris McCandless lived nearly two years in the wild. Throughout the novel‚ Krakauer relates Chris’ adventures to his own experience in mountain climbing and living on his own. This is not your typical memoir where the author tells a story about their lives. Jon Krakauer is not the main character; however he tells a story of this boy who leaves his well-developed family for
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READER’S RESPONSE STRATEGY/ READER’S RESPONSE CRITICISM Applying Reader Response Strategy in Appreciating Literary Works The appreciation of the short story applies seven reader response strategies posed by Beach and Marshall (1990); they are describing‚ conceiving‚ explaining‚ interpreting‚ engaging‚ connecting and judging. The guiding questions are constructed based on the responses. NO | Response | Explanations | Indicators | Questions to guide | 1 | Engaging(Include) | Getting involved
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Daisy hits and kills Myrtle with Gatsby’s car. Mr. Willson‚ Myrtles husband‚ devastated and heart broken kills Gatsby thinking he was the one responsible for his wife death. Tom and Daisy then skip town without telling anyone where they are going‚ while Nick desperately tries to get people to Gatsby’s funeral. Only a few people come and it is at this point that Nick realizes how truly empty Gatsby’s life was. The ending is satisfying to me because I felt like in the end everybody had karma coming
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Hatchet Reader Response 1. Paulsen‚ Gary. Hatchet. New York: Puffin Books‚ 1987. Character: Brian Robeson 2. Thirteen year old Brian Robeson is traveling on a small aircraft traveling to Canada when the pilot has a sudden heart attack leaving Brian in control of the plane. Brian brings the air plane to a crashing landing where he miraculously survives while the pilot has perished. Brian is faced with countless problems involving human survival‚ extreme isolation‚ and a dangerous environment
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Reader Response: 1984 The novel 1984 made me paranoid and suspicious of the government’s power and intentions. I became aware of the potential manipulation of which the government could impose upon us. The very thing which I depend on for security and protection may be a conniving entity which feeds off of it’s own power and corruption. As I flourished in my naivety‚ I was unaware that the people I trusted‚ whom I believed to be wholly dedicated to our well-being as a society‚ could betray
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