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All people are known to be different in their own ways, and thats what
makes individuals unique. How individuals read differently when coming
across texts is no exception. In the story On a Winter’s Night a Traveler by
Italo Calvino, the main character in story has a fascination in reading
novels and what the texts true meanings are. While the narrator views his
reading as saying how he only likes to read what is written and to connect
details to the main theme, every other reader has a different perspective.
Each reader reads in his own unique way, showing how the way people
read can be vastly different. One reader claims how he has the need to
reread certain parts of the text to get the true meaning of the story. One
reader even has the belief that reading the title is enough for him, and that
he has no need to even read the story. All of these readers have a vastly
different view on how they read a story, and the reasoning behind this can
be traced from genetics and how people were raised.
