There is a lot of writers who get over analyzed to the point where just like it says they said a door was red and that meant the door was red nothing more yet everyone is like it meant anger or death or blah blah blah.
I had an argument with a teacher about the scarlet letter. The part where the ex husband is living with her lover and is treating the lover medically but the lover just gets sicker and sicker.
He tried to say it was the ex husband using herbal medicine to slowly kill the lover for being the father of his ex wife’s kid.
I argued that maybe the lover just had something that wasn’t discovered yet. Maybe he had cancer or maybe the ex husband just wasn’t that well knowledge in medicine he only learned it from natives he lived with for only a little while some herbs and plants look very similar yet one head while one poisons.
Not only that this was when the colonies were just beginning they didn’t believe in surgery they didn’t have shots or penicillin.
I told him maybe he just was under educated and didn’t have access to modern medicine which caused him to do more harm than good. Hell they didn’t even know to wash your hands before helping people. Or how illness was spread.
Lol he told me no that is not how it was written.
I almost yell BITCH I READ THE BOOK AND WATCHED ALL THE MOVIES!
Yeah really. Chances are, the author just liked the color, or outfit, or whatever is being questioned, and so wrote it into their work, (or was being accurate to the setting, like the example above).
I wrote a few things where the reason some stuff was how I wrote it because that I always wanted it like that or I grew up with one like it. For example I once wrote a book for kids where it was a baby and the baby had a yellow gingham blanket as it’s favorite toy. I wrote the book for English we all had to write a kids book. The teacher over analyzed everyone’s books and when he got to mine he said so you made the toy a blanket to show how protected the baby is and made it yellow to signify how happy the baby is? I said NO I made it A gingham yellow blanket because as a kid my favorite toy was a blanket that was gingham yellow. Lol
Some authors do get over analyzed, but it does also happen a lot that authors include small details as clues about the story or the characters, especially when the story is written with a point in mind, like the Scarlet Letter. Yes, some story details are just based on little details from life, but often times authors have an intention behind what they write that affects every detail.
Then there's the argument that even if you didn't consciously think about the meaning behind something you wrote, there was an unconscious bias that affected your story. For example, you don't realize that your favorite toy was a blanket because you liked the security the blanket gave you.
I'm not saying these arguments are always correct, I'm just saying they're worth considering before getting angry at teachers for trying to find meaning in the details.
Some authors do get over analyzed, but it does also happen a lot that authors include small details as clues about the story or the characters, especially when the story is written with a point in mind, like the Scarlet Letter. Yes, some story details are just based on little details from life, but often times authors have an intention behind what they write that affects every detail.
Then there's the argument that even if you didn't consciously think about the meaning behind something you wrote, there was an unconscious bias that affected your story. For example, you don't realize that your favorite toy was a blanket because you liked the security the blanket gave you.
I'm not saying these arguments are always correct, I'm just saying they're worth considering before getting angry at teachers for trying to find meaning in the details.
I had an argument with a teacher about the scarlet letter. The part where the ex husband is living with her lover and is treating the lover medically but the lover just gets sicker and sicker.
He tried to say it was the ex husband using herbal medicine to slowly kill the lover for being the father of his ex wife’s kid.
I argued that maybe the lover just had something that wasn’t discovered yet. Maybe he had cancer or maybe the ex husband just wasn’t that well knowledge in medicine he only learned it from natives he lived with for only a little while some herbs and plants look very similar yet one head while one poisons.
Not only that this was when the colonies were just beginning they didn’t believe in surgery they didn’t have shots or penicillin.
Lol he told me no that is not how it was written.
I almost yell BITCH I READ THE BOOK AND WATCHED ALL THE MOVIES!
Then there's the argument that even if you didn't consciously think about the meaning behind something you wrote, there was an unconscious bias that affected your story. For example, you don't realize that your favorite toy was a blanket because you liked the security the blanket gave you.
I'm not saying these arguments are always correct, I'm just saying they're worth considering before getting angry at teachers for trying to find meaning in the details.
Then there's the argument that even if you didn't consciously think about the meaning behind something you wrote, there was an unconscious bias that affected your story. For example, you don't realize that your favorite toy was a blanket because you liked the security the blanket gave you.
I'm not saying these arguments are always correct, I'm just saying they're worth considering before getting angry at teachers for trying to find meaning in the details.
Walk.
To the Naruto, or any other, universe.