Clue #1

1. In your own words, please summarize what Reader Response analysis, and what steps are involved.


I think a Reader Response analysis is somewhat like a personal connection. It's your own response toward the text from what you feel while reading it. I think there can be two ways to start making a Reader Response. The first way of, you read the whole text and understand the sentence well enough . Then you skim through the text again looking for whatever connection you can make out of it. The second way can be that you carefully read the passage patiently, making the response as you read on. And if you were to do it with another person, share it with another. Compare the responses that you and the other person have made, and discuss how each responded to the text. Suggest each other if there is a misunderstood connection made. I think this could help both to make a more precise connection.





2. How can Reader Response open our eyes to more truths as we read?


Responding to the text throughout while reading it can help the reader know the text better. If there is more response made to the text, there is also a better understanding. This can let you realize the small meanings hidden in the text that's not easily visible. Also as the reader gets to know the text more, the reader can comprehend beyond what he or she is looking for, and sometimes they might solve the text more than what the writer had intended for the readers to realize.





3. Why is it important for you to interact/connect with the literature?


I think interacting with the text is a really crucial part in understanding the literature. That's because making a connection with the text actually lets you become part of the literature and think about yourself one more time. Also the past experiences similar to the plot of the story, which helps you know how differently a character acted in the similar situation and got results that varied from your action and the outcome. From my perspective, this question is really similat to the question #2, but somewhat differnt. Such as in a way that making connection with the text lets you understand the text better in a personal way that reader response could not.



4. Reflect on a book or story you have read recently and what new truth about the world you learned from that narrative.

Only stories that comes to my mind right now is the "Marigolds" and "The Utterly Perfect Murder." Both of those stories taught me something new that I wasn't perfectly aware of. While reading the "Marigolds", I knew Ms. Lottie had almost given up her life, but she was attatched to the flowers in a way that wasn't convincing Lizabeth. Reading the part where Lizabeth destroyed the garden of marigolds, I wondered how she could be so crude to the old lady that she knew almost had no purpose for living. I also realized that after Ms. Lottie's long-term hobby was so easily destroyed by a mere child, and how shortly Ms. Lottie wasn't able to continue with her life. From this story, I learned that one single action can totally destroy one's plan. In "The Utterly Perfect Murder", I learned how a person's emotion can change so suddenly from what the person sees, like how Doug's rage that seemed like it can anyone calmed down after seeing how ruined and deserted.





If I put beauty in my own words, it would be something "pure" maybe, since beauty can mean an object without any flaw. It's basically the outer view of a person. I think this is very similar to what most people would say and agree, but God sees diffently. He said that in 1 Peter 3:3–5 that "Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight", meaning that the God sees everyone's outside as same, but what he really cares is that the heart and the pureness of their spirit that worships God. And in Ecclesiastes 3:11-14, God says he made everything beautiful as same when starting, so he sees everything that he made beautiful, especially the inside of a person. This conflicts with Lizabeth's action against Ms. Lottie, becuase she thought she and her life wasn't beautiful. But I'm sure that if they were real people, God saw Ms. Lottie's inside purer than Lizabeth's, because considering the pureness of the spirits, I thought Ms. Lottie's spirits was obviously purer than Lizabeth's.