In “Good Readers and Good Writers” Nabokov believes that a creative reader is a re-reader. He related reading a book to looking at a painting in the way that when someone looks at the surface level of a painting they don’t get the full understanding of the painting. However, at “ a second, or third, or fourth reading” they begin to see the bigger picture that the author wanted his audience to see.( Nabokov) Re-reading, according to Nabokov, is what makes a reader creative and able to become a good reader. [He] uses the analogy of the painting to represent how by just reading books …show more content…
Le Guin. This text is very complex and can be onerous to understand if a does not take the time to re-read the story again and fully understand what is going on in the story. If the reader just reads the story only once then they will only understand the surface level meaning of the story which is that a kid is “in a basement under one of the beautiful public buildings of Omelas, or perhaps in the cellar of one of its spacious private homes”.( Le Guin 3) The reader would never bother to truly understand the purpose of the text or why it is that people leave Omelas even though it seems like a beautiful and joyous place to