Good Readers and Good Writers

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Reading and writing is an interesting mode of communication. In order for this communication to take place, the author must have something in his head that he wants to share. The difficult part is finding a way to transfer those ideas from the author's mind into the mind of the reader. In order to achieve this, the author must write in a way that the reader finds relevant and can somehow relate to. No author can make a story relevant to all readers because different people have different values and different ideas about the world. Some people will find it easy to identify with a certain character and or a certain conflict, but not everyone will be able to do that. Also, some readers may not like a author's writing style. For example people may get board with a book that is written with lots of detail and not a lot of action, while other readers may become disappointed a book that is written with a lack of details and find that it doesn't fully describe what is going on in the author's mind.

We can relate easily to some books, but we can't relate to all books, but the mark of a good reader is someone who is able to understand a book even if its difficult to relate to. Reading such a book may not be particularly enjoyable, but it is important that we understand what is going on through the author's mind. Even if we find a book difficult and hard to identify with, we can still learn from the ideas that the author is expressing.