Reading With Different Eyes.

I have to agree with Sonya Chung when she says that she “admires people who reread book over and over again.” I’ve never done that and reading this made me think why I love and don’t mind repeating movies that I have seen but it has never occurred to me to reread a book that I liked. So I asked my mom if she ever rereads books that she likes and, no she does not. Because of this, I think people when they read, they do it in a more general way. What I mean is that they don’t read to get a message out of it or find its symbols. They read to distract themselves and to understand the global idea of it.

I remembered when I saw the movie Salt for the first time. I enjoyed it and thought it was a good movie, then my sister asked me to watch it with her again, so we went to the movies and when it was over I realized many things that I had not understood the first time I saw it. For example, the fact that agent Salt was infiltrated in the C.I.A from the beginning. I know that if I had not watched it again, I would still have that doubt. So if we understand better when we watch it for the second time maybe we all should reread books that we really enjoy.

The author of the blog states that “there’s knowing something, and then there’s knowing something. It’s like I’m a born-again rereader, experiencing anew how a first read can be as different from a second read or a third read as reading two completely different works. And yes: with great literature, the experience is deeper and richer with each successive reading.Of course, the works stays the same; it’s we who change.” I agree with her, and not only referring to books. When looking at a movie for example, or an article or a poem even more, the second time you read it you focus on different aspects, more specific details than the first time. Because when you read or watch for the first time you tend to try and understand the broad idea, leaving details behind.

She shares her own experience with Gatsby by writing on how she focused on Fitzgerald sentences, Daisys voice, “the eyes of Dr. T.J Eckleburg,” and the meaning of the yellow car. And I had my own experience with the movie. So we can conclude that rereading book is useful in getting a different approach of the novel, because each time you reread it, you read it with a different approach, it is as if you were reading with different eyes.