Reading Genius
I don’t know what each of our 11th graders’ reading scores are, but I’m seeing some impressive insights as I read through these blogs, so I would hope that any standardized test would be legitimate enough to capture your abilities. I consider The Old Man and the Sea a difficult book, but you are reading it well.
Take Danielle as an example: she has identified how Hemingway shows you a picture and leaves it to you as a reader to work out the implications. She calls this leaving the book as opinion. Or look how Emmerz has discovered an inverted relationship between the old man and the boy: the boy acts fatherly towards the old man by taking care of him. I’ll be interested in tracking that as we move further in the book. Hunter 48 has used some background knowledge to pinpoint the setting of the book, and he seems to have a unique perspective of the old man’s memories.
The key seems to be the questions you are asking, and while I think those questions are fueling the insights above, Punch Drunk Love has laid out her questions for us all to read, and it is obvious that they are leading to insight about this book.
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