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    Reader Response Criticism to Camus’ The Stranger (The Outsider)         In The Stranger (The Outsider), Albert Camus anticipates an active reader that will react to his text. He wants the reader to form a changing, dynamic opinion of Meursault. The reader can create a consciousness for Meursault from the facts that Meursault reports. By using vague and ambiguous language, Camus stimulates the reader to explore all possibilities of meaning. Camus also intends to shock the reader into rereading

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    “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver, readers observe how Robert, a blind guy, alters the narrator’s world view and the respective marked alterations that take place in narrator’s life. The writer of this article explains about this shift of point of view and the enormous change that takes place in the narrator’s life, when he changes from a person who only looks to a man who sees. The explanation is given through the lenses of reader response criticism using subjective reader-response theory represented by

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    does it make a sound?” A Reader- Oriented approach to Edgar Alan Poe’s The Tell- Tale Heart The Titular question is an old philosophical riddle for which a wide range of metaphysical and non-metaphysical solution has been offered. The answers differ based on the perspective of the interpreter. Judging these answers is neither possible nor desirable for us, but the riddle and the ensuing debates attest to the veracity of one of the most basic tenets of reader-response theory: If a text

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    Scout Is A Reader

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    Scouts Is a Reader Scout is small town girl in the are of Maycomb. She doesn’t like being or considered less of because of she's a lady. Even though she never implied the fact the she’s more “tomboy” the readers can factor that in. She’s advanced scholastically, and enjoys learning more and new things. As the day go by she waits for the night when her dad comes home and they would spend the evening reading the newspaper together. Scout is a reader. At a young age she begins to learn to read and

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    Life as a Reader Reading is important in general for society to function. We use this concept in everything we usually do in a daily routine. Due to it being important we should be taught this from a young age, yet some people are not. In the United States we have a high illiteracy rates. So without reading how are they suppose to know where to go or what to do and what not to do. Reading is a high priority that we all need to take. So as a child I was read too and would read. To be a successful

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    Psychic Readers

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    lives, so it's important that we choose the right psychic reader service. Types of Psychic Readers The term "psychic reader" is very broad. There are upwards of 20 different types of psychic readers. The type that best suits you will be dependent on your reason for visiting. The more common types of psychic readers include: - Mediums: Mediums are psychics who communicate with the

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    Successful Reader

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    the skills of decoding is not enough to become a successful reader. For this reason, the key elements of the reading process will be discussed in an order which allows children to develop the building blocks necessary to become a successful reader. Systematic and explicit reading instruction is vital for reading development as it allows children to build on the previously acquired skills and strategies required to become a successful reader. The purpose of this essay is to explain why having a concept

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    Extensive Reader

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    SPOKEN ENGLISH AND BROKEN ENGLISH George Bernard Shaw is perhaps one of the most prolific writers of the modern era. Though he is best known as a playwright, Shaw was also a respected critic, journalist, novelist, and essayist. A noted social reformer, Shaw wrote plays which dramatized social commentaries, and in 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. “The gramophone will one day be used for language teaching”, prophesied H.G.Wells. Shaw made a special recording on ‘Spoken English

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    Reader Positioning

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    Reader Positioning Narratives encourage us to feel a particular way about the events and people in them. They often encourage us to align ourselves with one character in a narrative and not with others. To align ourselves with a character means to be on their side or empathise with them. They might encourage us to feel sorry for character or admire them, disapprove of them or fear them. This is called reader positioning: narratives position reader to adopt particular feelings or attitudes.

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    Eulogy For Reader

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    some way, at the very least to prompt you forward in writing your story. My notes consists of a variety of areas and includes advice as well, anything I noticed and thought of I wrote about. I do hope it makes sense :) - It is good to not tell the reader too much, or in fact much at all, in the prologue. It is a teaser after all. However, I feel like you've given us too much of not enough in yours. The Master goes into a fantastically detailed account of 'She' while confusing us with his speech. If

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