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The Great Gatsby Revisited!
The Great Gatsby Revisited!
1st read through: The writer, Sonya Chung writes an interesting blog on her experiences of re reading pieces of work like "The Great Gatsby." She lets readers know what she found most interesting, and how she learned something new each time she read the book. She analyzes certain facts about the book and lets us know why she thinks they are important.
2nd read through (but first, dinner, a nice break to refresh the mind)...
Reading the blog for a second time I was able to read it slower and appreciate more what the writer was saying. This is probably a reason why she admires people who reread books "over and over again" and finds it to be very important to teach to the common high school student like me, "there knowing something, and then there's knowing something."
She also analysis how rereading a book lets the reader understand it more and get more out of it. She herself experienced this transformation when she read "the Great Gatsby" at three different moments in her life: high school, college, and now as a teacher. She describes the book as a "literary treasure", which I suppose could be said about any great book, if we just get to know it.
From all the possible things she has discovered while rereading "The Great Gatsby", she has only given us four which amazed her, and analysis them. She tells us that the story is not just about the elite and wealthy but instead is about us (would have never interpreted it in that way, but then again, I have only read it once). She escapes from the story and tells us about the indescribable beauty of the flowing sentences Fitzgerald has created. Going back to the story she tells us about what haunted her and what excited her, and how the movie completely ruined parts of the book.
All in all, this is just a blog with another opinion on it, off course it has a valuable lesson: To understand, the story at hand: read read again! By doing this we learn to think for ourselves, and provide ourselves our own opinions without confusing it with other peoples opinions and not letting ourselves be amazed by the mysteries of the book in our hand... although I will still turn to those summary websites, just to make sure I understood what I missed, because I did not reread.
2nd read through (but first, dinner, a nice break to refresh the mind)...
Reading the blog for a second time I was able to read it slower and appreciate more what the writer was saying. This is probably a reason why she admires people who reread books "over and over again" and finds it to be very important to teach to the common high school student like me, "there knowing something, and then there's knowing something."
She also analysis how rereading a book lets the reader understand it more and get more out of it. She herself experienced this transformation when she read "the Great Gatsby" at three different moments in her life: high school, college, and now as a teacher. She describes the book as a "literary treasure", which I suppose could be said about any great book, if we just get to know it.
From all the possible things she has discovered while rereading "The Great Gatsby", she has only given us four which amazed her, and analysis them. She tells us that the story is not just about the elite and wealthy but instead is about us (would have never interpreted it in that way, but then again, I have only read it once). She escapes from the story and tells us about the indescribable beauty of the flowing sentences Fitzgerald has created. Going back to the story she tells us about what haunted her and what excited her, and how the movie completely ruined parts of the book.
All in all, this is just a blog with another opinion on it, off course it has a valuable lesson: To understand, the story at hand: read read again! By doing this we learn to think for ourselves, and provide ourselves our own opinions without confusing it with other peoples opinions and not letting ourselves be amazed by the mysteries of the book in our hand... although I will still turn to those summary websites, just to make sure I understood what I missed, because I did not reread.
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