Watch What You Read Chapter 25: "Don't Read With Your Eyes" Emma Hernandez

   

   When a reader is reading, there is more behind the words that are written on the paper. "You have to read through eyes that are not your own," Foster says. We, as readers need to learn how to look and understand the characters from their point of view, in order to understand their story and situation. We need to learn how to see what their situation is through their perspectives. We need to watch what we read and interpret the story. "...if e want to get the most out of our reading as far as is reasonable, we have to try to take the works as they are intended to be taken." "...don't read only from your own fixed position...find a reading perspective that allows for sympathy with the historical moment of the story..." are some things written in this chapter.
 
  In order to gain from the reading, it's our job as readers to not just read and skim the surface, we need to dig deep in the story and squeeze every piece of important and useful information and detail. Analyzing a story well is very important and critical, because when you are reading you actually comprehend the story and the meaning behind it. The story can also become more personal, and you can take it more personally. I know and remember when we would read in past English classes, our teachers would tell uis that if we ever think a story or come across a story that we think is boring, or doesn't get our attention, to engage more into the replace the characters name with your. but what if instead of changing the name, you actually understand the story and the character's situation. Changing the name of the characters does make the story a little better, it does make the story a little more interesting, but once again you're only reading the surface. You're just changing the name, and you're still not understanding the story.
      
 Try to understand the character. Try to understand what they are going through with through their eyes. Try to understand their situation and imagine what it would be like to be in their shoes. Take in what they are going through and what's going on. "Readers perspective matters" Actually EXPERIENCE the story and get lost in it. Maybe you'll learn and grow from it. Maybe when you dig into the story there is something in that story that applies to you. Make it personal, it would really help a lot when you're reading any piece of literature. To become a good reader and understand a piece of literature enjoy the story and take it in. If you actually read with perspective you might enjoy it a little more, and see things that you didn't see before when you where just a reader who was reading with their eyes.