Question

How I can understand the words of John Green when he said "readers should go out there and make a world" in " How and Why we read"

Answer 1

Answer.

You need to unders And this quote in the context of John Green’s argument about the privilege accorded to reading and writing in our civilisation compared to oral traditions of communication. Reading and writing allow us to communicate directly and transparently with people who live far away from us because of the development of an elaborate grammar which creates uniformity in meaning.

Moreover Green writes that stories are about communication. To this end, reading is always an act of empathy as it involves imagining of what it’s like to be someone else. The written text for Green is devoid of any authorial intent that is, it is not so much about the author. Rather, the book exists for the benefit of the reader since a reader can have a richer experience with the world as a result of reading a symbol. This ultimately means that the story can have a bigger and better life in the mind of the reader who is interpreting the layers of meaning.  And it is up to the reader to then explore the world through the symbols of the text.