Reading Literature

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To us, Hunt’s research is a wonderful example of an exploratory study that yields the most satisfying result such a study can have: It surprised the socks off the researcher. It did not—as far as I can see from the answers I got to this section—lead a single one of my students to understand the point of the story, to savor or even understand the savage irony of the fact that the narrator had had his own sight miraculously restored and had “forgotten” it; that he is so unaffected—certainly unsaved—by the miracle that he not only denies miracles but is apparently going around corrupting people. ... But they [the students] did not have the sensation, which I had hoped for and planned on at least some of them having, of having the story’s meaning explode on their consciousness the way it did on mine the first time I read the story. I can’t quote extensively enough from the responses of my students to the ending of the story to convey how desperately confused they were. ... (p. 64-65)

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