One part of this essay that really caught my attention was the list of reasons someone is a good reader. I do not know if this caught my eye because it was a list and not paragraphs, or if it was because I just understood it a lot. The list says that you should identify yourself with the hero or heroine (Nabokov 2) and that made a lot of sense to me because often, when I am reading a novel, I find myself comparing myself with at least one of the characters. In doing so, I am able to enjoy it much more. It also says that you should have an imagination and artistic sense (Nabokov 2). That caught my attention as well because I realized that in many books, certain details are left out so that you may visualize them yourself. They are left up to the reader’s imagination. I love it when authors do this because if the reader gets a chance to use their imagination, then they can enjoy the story much more.
Another section that intrigued me was the second paragraph of the third page. It also spoke about personal imagination and an artistic mind. It said how we should use our imagination to enjoy the parts of the literary piece that the author put out there. My favorite part of this paragraph was where it said, “We must see things and hear things, we must visualize the rooms, the clothes, the manners of an author’s people.” (Nabokov 3) I enjoyed this part because I find that one of the most enjoyable part of any novel I read. The fact that you can let your imagination run wild without messing up the novel’s main plot and you have a lot of creative freedom. Nabokov is really good at explaining how a novel should be read, and that is what caught my attention.
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