Reading Response

     When I read the essay "Lenses" I was kind of confused. At first it started out with the author telling us about how hard it is to look through a microscope. She then started to tell the readers that once you get used to it, it's not that hard. In order for people to get the point of the story, they have to finish it to the end because the point of it, I feel, is in the last paragraph. I didn't really get it in the beginning because the author seemed like she was just trying to scramble around the story to make it interesting. 

     When I read it more than once, I got the vibe of she was explaining how difficult life can be. She says "The switch on the microscope teaches us how to move our hands wrong." I felt like that was the author saying that life can teach us how to do bad things. I also felt like it was saying that no matter what, we're going to make those mistakes because it's in the best interest of us. I also felt like this story would be good to read in class because it throws a curve ball in the middle. It says "This story isn't about that, it's about swans. It's not even a story it's a description." That's when I got confused, but when I finished it, I understood it.

     All in all this story would be good to teach to any class that has to do with literature or writing. It teaches us, or at least it taught me to be creative with your words. Also it taught me that no matter what people say, you can have different perspectives of different things than other people. I know when we talked about this story in class, my perspective was different than everyone else. I feel like this story was made to make a point about the way people write. The author was trying to show us that.