Jar of Hearts

How much does the reader own the text she/he is reading?  How does a reader participate in a text?  Does the reader belong in the text?  Why or why not?

   

-  A reader and/or audience have an important role in the writing process of a writer. Some writers write for personal expression, some write to inspire, some write to persuade, some write merely to entertain, and some write to do all of the above and more. Aside from personal ideas, writers have a major role in influencing the direction a writer takes in his/her writing because once the writer have chosen what he/she will write about, and have chosen who he/ she will target, the writer must do its very best to receive the intended reaction from the audience (reader); which is not an easy task to accomplish. That being said, the final piece produced by a writer is in my opinion, partially the audiences because it is the reader who motivate the writer to write. Readers dictate the tone, mood, diction, rhetoric, and so on of an entire piece; thus, it is their to immerse themselves into the writer's work and the writer feedback so he/she can know whether his/her's intended purpose was fulfilled; this will ultimately affect the writer's future work.