What to ‘get out’ of a book.

[MichelleHW101]

I was reading Candid and my father comes in and he said, ‘Do you understand the book?”  I said it is a simple enough story to understand.  He said no.  The moral of the story is about a perfect world.  I said no it’s not it is that everything that happens does so for a reason.  That’s what Candid is always quoting.  He goes on to say how he is right (as usual) and that if it is taught in class that is what they teach you the story is about.  I said, “what is this like that Mama’s family episode where Mama goes to night school and is the only one that actually read the Scarlet letter where as everyone else just read the cliff notes?”  He didn’t get it because he replied, “we have the cliff notes.”  Then I saw a South Park Episode where the boys write a book and use Butters as the author.  In the end I think it was Stan (or maybe Kyle) that realizes people are going to take what they want out of a book whether the author intended it that way or not. And they are so right.  Unless the author actually says this is what you should get from my story it is all based on the individual where no one person is right and none are wrong.