English 102: Week One Assignment

I made this Blog also for my College Course: English 102 so there will be many Blog Posts for that! Here is the first one! :)

Week One Assignment: Blog Post Good Reader and Good Writers.

1. When it came to what Nabokov though makes a good reader there was a list of ten things that he believed to be a good reader. The reader should belong to a book club, indentify himself or herself with the hero or heroine, concentrate on the social-economic angle, prefer a story with action and dialogue to one with none. Also the reader should have seen the book in a movie, should be a budding author, have an imagination, along with having a memory, a dictionary, and have some artistic sense. He believed that good readers have imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense. Thought the college students that he was lecturing to leaned on emotional identification, action, and the social-economic or historical angle.

2. When it comes to if I agree completely with Nabokov on what he thinks makes a good reader, I would have to agree on certain points and disagree on the others. When it comes to the first point that Nabokov made that a good reader should be part of a book club, I disagree, I understand that being part of a group where you can see others opinions and thoughts are a great way to see other ways than your own but I do not think it is completely necessary. I do agree that a reader should identify themselves with the protagonists of the tale since it makes it feel more personal and gives it depth that is what many video gamers including myself do, could explain why I cried so many times during Mass Effect 3. I do not think that all good readers prefer books that have action in them and there is some books that do not even have the characters talking but instead are filled with amazing details and makes you feel what they are going through. I do not agree that a good reader should be a budding author, not everyone who is a good writer is a good reader and the same vice-versa.

3. When it comes to what characteristics that I believe to be a good reader I would have to say that the reader has to have an understanding of what is happening in the book. The reader also has to identify themselves with the hero or heroine of the tale to have an emotional or even just a connection to what is going on. A good reader should have a memory so that they remember what was happening rather than be confused throughout the story or have to go back and further to jog their memory of what was happening. Also a dictionary is a great thing to fully understand what the author was talking about and a good reader does not simply just read over the word and continue on.

4. When it comes to whether or not I believe myself to be a good reader, I would have to say that according to what I think I am a great reader! But if we are judging if I am a good reader according to Nabokov then I am a bad reader since I do not do many of the things that he believes to classify a good reader. I have an imagination, memory, dictionary, artistic sense and indentify myself with the hero or heroine of the story but the others that he listed I do not do or believe. Also does a good reader always read or it is just a characteristic that they have, like for example some people are good at Math while others are good at English, so does that matter if a reader is constantly reading that labels them as a good reader?