Summary Of The Chapter 'Don T Read With Your Eyes'

The chapter “ Don't Read with your Eyes” in the book How to Read Literature like a Professor states, with many examples, that when your read something or look at someone with your eyes do not judge them with first glance. Look at the situation from a different perspective and try to understand it. When you see someone on the streets digging through a trash can, what do you immediately think? Most of us would say that they are scary, dangerous people and have no home and no life. When you see a movie star in a nice car or with nice clothes on doing fun things, what do you think? Once again, most of us would say that they are nice, privledged people who have the best lives and we would like to be just like them. The chapter “Don’t read with your Eyes” tells us to look at others perspectives and

Instead try to find a reading perspective that allows sympathy with the historical moment of the story” (Foster 234). This quotation gives us a more in depth version of what I was trying to say above. You should not just judge someone by the way they look. Instead, get to know them and try to find the good things about them. In the book Glass Castle, the Walls were judged by their neighbors, family, and friends from school. They did not live in a huge house or have nice clothes. In fact they moved around all of the time, lived in the streets, and ended up in a shack with only a few outfits that they got from the thrift store. The situation that they were in triggered the thought from the people that surrounded them daily that they were scary and crazy people that they should avoid them at all cost; “ She ain't got no buttons on her shirt”( Walls 139). Jeanette may have come from a less fortunate family, but