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Reading with an eye toward metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about while reading about them. That’s why there are symbols in books and why your English teacher deserves your attention. Ultimately it doesn’t matter if the author intended a symbol to be there because the job of reading is not to understand the author’s intent. The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves.

— John Green, Life Is Like Pizza

I wish I knew this at the beginning of high school. Maybe then I would have appreciated English class a whole lot more. (submitted by ayaaai)

:OO Sounds like something Mr. Kim would agree with.

Posted on September 20, 2010 via eff yeah nerdfighters! with 204 notes

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  So, it’s like a mini psychology class? (sorta) Cool :D
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  #Don’t make me fucking cry AGAIN John
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  This is why I would argue that people who read can understand people as a whole better. They can put themselves in...
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  what we’re doing in our english class.
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  don’t know about becoming...person we’re reading about— it’s
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  That right there, explains why...read books and write as well.
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