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= English 11: Initiation (Rites of Passage) Unit =

As you read and analyze these stories, keep in mind the reader-response theory and this quote.
"Through the medium of words, the text brings into the reader's consciousness certain concepts, certain sensuous experiences, certain images of things, people, actions, scenes. The special meanings and, more particularly, the submerged associations that these words and images have for the individual reader will largely determine what it communicates to him. The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of the past, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment, and a particular physical condition.”

~Louise Rosenblatt, Literature as Exploration