How to Read Literature Like a Professor: Ch. 22-26

I really liked Chapter 25, "Don't Read With Your Eyes," of this reading. Thomas Foster's argument is that in order for one to understand a certain work from a different time period, one must see through the eyes of that time period and not from the present time. Not all books that we will read will be from our time, and majority of the books we do read were written in times that had different morals and principles than ours does now. Some things that are insignificant to us now may have been important in the past, and vice versa. In order to catch those important facts in literature, we should place ourselves in that time period and setting. I find this aspect of being a reader very important because it makes a person more open-minded. A reader can learn more, understand better, absorb, and become diversified. We can become more flexible and accepting if we don't always "read with our own eyes."