Quote: “Comprehension
needs to be worked, forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the
action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out
the task. For this very reason, reading
and studying from challenging tasking
one, requiring patience and perseverance.” (42)
Response:
This highlights that while it seems easy, from the outside, to read, it is a
very complex activity. Usually, English majors are pulled down because it
doesn’t seem as complex as the sciences, but, if it were easy, there would be
more English majors. Yes, anyone can read and comprehend a text (not easily but
it’s possible), but what separates us from the rest, is that we dedicate all
our time to do just that: analyze texts and come up with conclusions and
responses to it. It consists of doing research to understand cultural
references as well as current events. Themes are themes because they can be used
in various situations. It’s our job as readers, not just English majors, to
expand on it, and, just like one does with a muscle, exercise our reading
comprehension skills to read between the lines of a text and understand it
better. Just how Freire said, it won’t just manifest itself to us, we have to
search and search for meaning in everything, which require a lot of effort.
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