Re-consider Re-reading

To tell the truth, most every time that the importance of re-reading has been mentioned to me time and time again, I almost always without hesitation think "yeah, sure that's gonna happen... psh". And here we go again, some teacher’s blog about her experience and her undergoing an epiphany about how importance it really is. It feels like every time people want to give you advice based on their experiences, it’s about the actual importance of something; like until it happened to them it was less important or something.

Anyways, I got to reading about other authors re-reading to keep in mental shape so-to-speak. And well apparently, I contradicted myself. I got to thinking and evidently realized that I do re read – a lot. Sure the length of what I re-read influences how much of it I re-read but for example today while doing the read now,  I re-read the piece about 4 or 5 times before I actually got any abstract meaning from it. So I guess I relate to this woman, being that I’m in high school and all, and well I probably didn’t fully understand this book (given she probably hasn’t understood it to the full extent herself) but I give her credit for the amount of analysis she achieved.

Something specific that caught my eye was the section focused on the characters and their personalities. In my understanding of it, I too noticed importance in the characters and their characteristics. Somehow, they seemed very organic to me. They just possessed real qualities. Uncertainty, contradiction that appears coherent … I don’t really know how to express it. It’s kind of like when you look at a person and really see the human. Something particular, an essence… an image.