Good Readers vs. Bad Readers

In class we talked about Good Readers vs. Bad Readers and I thought that topic was really interesting, so I decided to look at how I “read”.

I’m typically a “bad reader” there are some case where I’m “good reader” and it’s all thanks to Netflix, because I can watch my favorite t.v. shows on repeat forever. Which allows me to notice and understand thing I might have missed the first few times I watch it.

But, more times than not I'm a “bad reader”. For example, with “It’s a Wonderful Life”. I can still remember the first time I watched it, I was about 8 and it was Christmas Eve. My parents were flipping through the channels when they found that it had already started,so we began watching at the scene right before the one we played in class. At the end I would have to say 8 year old me enjoyed it and the scene we watched in class actually became my favorite one. But watching it in class on Thursday and seeing all the bible symbolism cliques, that kind of ruined it for me. Cause you know what, I liked being a “bad reader” and being able to simply sit down to watch the movie as a nice Christmas story (and I am going to miss that).  I was robbed of that, now I will forever see the underlying connections to the bible.