Based off the book, "The Lovely Bones", answer between 7-9 questions about the text in the journal. Questions are below:
Predicting or Generating Expectations:
At various stages of your reading of the text... What sort of things could happen in the short and long term?
Puzzles:
What puzzles or problems are you formulating at various reading moments? What specific questions are you asking of the text?
Filling the Gaps:
What gaps are you filling in the text? What connections between events are you making? What is the point of each event? Why was a particular character included in the novel?
The Repertoire of Personal and Literary Experience:
What connections are you making between events in your own experience and events in the novel? Does the book remind you of other books you have read?
Mental Images:
What mental images are you forming of people, places and events in the novel? Consider the nature of these mental images and where they come from. For example, are they purely pictorial or are they more significantly "feelings about things?
The Implied Author:
What impression is the book giving you of the kind of person who wrote it? Do you find it difficult to sympathize with his or her view of the world?
The Implied Reader:
What kind of reader do you think the author had in mind as his or her audience for this book? Are you having any difficulty suspending your own values, prejudices, and worldviews sufficiently to enable the book to work on you? Why?
Ideology:
There is no such thing as an ideologically neutral text. What is the ideology of this text? What was the ideology of the society that saw fit to regard it as a great work of art? If the novel is not contemporary. why does it still speak to us today?
Reflection/Self-Understanding:
From considering questions like 1-8, what are you learning about:
- Yourself as a person?
- Your own strengths and weaknesses as a reader? What are your really productive reading strategies? For example, when you come to "boring° bits, think about what boredom means to you, and what you are learning about yourself from being bored.