After reading the introduction of "Ways of Reading" for the first time, an immediate sense of confusion struck. Thus, when contemplating the passage and reading it for a second time, the fog became clear. The introduction to the book "Ways of Reading" is unique in comparison to others. There is a great deal of detailed reference to the text.
The introduction although difficult was enjoyable to some extent. It was broken into nine separate sections, each educating the reader on assignments to follow. The writing was fairly basic, thus the elaborate reference to types of reading was often challenging to understand. For example in the first section the author is explaining the difficulty of reading by stating "one of the difficult things about reading is that the pages before you will begin to speak only when the authors are silent and you begin to speak in their place, sometimes for them-doing their work, continuing their projects, and sometimes for yourself, following your agenda" (pg. 1). This statement is confusing to a reader. After reading over a few times it is still tough to understand.
As you read further into the introduction the more the author makes note of essays from the book. This was another area of difficulty, considering the essays in the book are foreign to the average reader. The essays are used to help further the authors point.
Reading things more than once strengthens your understanding of what is being said. This introduction was challenging at first because of the strong views on reading and the comparisons to essays located in the book, thus after reading it a second time, the author's views became clearer. The introduction actually encourages you to read things more than once not just because of "misunderstandings" but also because when reading long passages it is hard to absorb so much information at once and by reading the passage twice over you will come across things that you may have missed.
