ENG 102
Nyomi Mosley
Laura B. Cline
Nyomi’s view of “Good Readers” based on Nabokov literature
Nabokov believes that a good reader is one who is able to fully comprehend the story, the teaching, and the enchantment of a piece of literature. He stated that in order for a good reader to understand a piece of literature he or she must learn to notice details. He made the point that a good reader will re-read the story several times in order to notice the details, so that they can better understand the writing. Understanding the story allows the good reader to feel what the author felt while they were writing. According to Nabokov a good reader is able to read with a pleasure that is both sensual and intellectual. In order to do so they must have imagination, memory, a dictionary and some artistic sense.
Personally, I agree with his definition of a good reader. I found it hard to disagree with the examples he gave in order to demonstrate the truth of his statements. I believe that a good reader should pay attention to details. I believe that, like Nabokov wrote, if they do not pay attention to details they will have a misconception of the entire piece of literature. I also believe that the readers play a major part in a piece of writing. If no one reads a story or a piece of literature what is the point of it being written? This link has a few quotes that explain the importance of good readers, http://thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/reader/. I believe that because we play such and important role in the advancement of and authors writing we should learn to enjoy as much literature as possible. At times it can be tedious to read certain types of literature yet I believe that all types are important to read, and a good reader will be able to train their mind to enjoy and learn from them all. I do not consider myself to have reached that point but, I hope I will soon enough. However, I know that I have some qualities of a good reader I re-examine literature a number of times in order to better understand and enjoy it, I have an imagination, and some artistic sense. Nevertheless, everyone is not perfect, we all have some things we need to work on, and I intend to do so in my weak areas of reading.
