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Reading to Understand, Not to Agree (opens the original)
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Somewhere along the way, we’ve confused understanding with agreement. We assume that trying to understand another person’s perspective somehow means we endorse it.But literature has never asked us to agree with every character, every decision, or every story. It has asked us to understand them.Recently, conversations surrounding Haunting Adeline and its potential film adaptation have highlighted just how divided readers can become. The controversy mainly being about how the book graphically port
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