Prompt 4

            The relationship between a reader and a writer is very crucial. When Foster states that “reading is an event of the imagination..” he is suggesting that any text maybe perceived differently because of our imagination. When the reader begins to read a book, their imagination becomes engaged with the writer’s. The reader begins to attempt to understand the main idea or message that the writer is attempting to get across. When the reader is focused on a piece of literature and reading they develop a feel for the book and a certain connection with the way it is written. When this connection is made, the reader’s imagination is strongly engaged with the writer’s. The process of writing is to figure out how to create the connection between the writing and the reader’s imagination. As a writer, if the connection is clear and easily made then the reader will have no problem or trouble understanding. For the engagement to work, both the reader and writer must be creative. By creatively thinking a reader’s imagination can go wild and can understand literature. Through the process of reading, the reader’s entire imagination is based around what the author has written and based off of the writer’s creative mind. The nature of reading is that everything in a piece of literature comes from the writer and the way the reader perceives it is based off of how the writer presents it. 

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  1. UnknownJuly 21, 2017 at 3:08 PM

    I completely agree with you Ben. Foster dives into the relationship between the reader and the writer to explain the major points that the author and the reader must have to be able to engage in the piece that is being written and read. The writer writes the way he feels and he hope that the audience will get the same feeling that he had when he wrote it. Also think about how many different types of writing and how many different types of audiences are, writers have to reach to a big group of people which means that their ideas can be interpreted in different ways, this also gives the writer wiggle room.

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  2. Ncoleman43776July 30, 2017 at 9:02 AM

    I agree with you Ben about the goal of a writer is to create that connection between words and the readers imagination. The author has these visual images in their head as they are writing their piece and wish to convey this to the reader and they accomplish this through the writing process. By not successfully doing this, they can create a bland story that fails to grab the reader's attention and thus is unsuccessful at creating that experience for the reader and author alike.

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  3. Carter NewmanAugust 1, 2017 at 7:02 PM

    I strongly agree with the point you made that the reader's perception is not only based on their past experiences, but also based off of how the writer presents their ideas. A good example of this is George Orwell's novel "Animal Farm". No matter how uncreative the mind of the reader is, it is possible to derive that the book is about a rise to power through immoral means. For the more creative readers, they can derive that the book is specifically modeling Stalin's rise to power in Russia and other individual issues, such as the discrimination involved with having a class system in society. This shows how the writer's imagination allows the uncreative to easily understand, while also allowing the creative's imagination to run rampant with ideas.

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