Clue 1

Mini 1. What is Beauty?
Beauty gives us pleasure physically (something beautiful in shape, sound or color; stuff like that) or gives us pleasure to the mind. So beauty is something that's admirable, adorable, pretty, lovely, and other adjectives like that. A lovely flower could be beautiful. A woman could be beautiful. A speech could be beautiful. There is a lot of beauty in this world, even in the small things everyday.

Mini 2. Find 2 Bible verses about God's view of beauty.
Proverbs 31:30 (New International Version)
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
1 Peter 3:3-4 (New International Version)
Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight.

1. Reader Response analysis is when there is interaction between each reader and the text. Because each person has his or her own memories, thoughts and feelings, everyone brings something of their own to the text, and interprets the meaning of it in their own way. The theory of Reader Response says that a piece of literature has no true meaning and that it's all about the reader's interpretation of it. In other words, there isn't just one way to look at a text because of all the personal things a reader brings to it. Although, there are some people who disagree. There are actually some steps for Reader Response to happen. You may not recognize you're doing it, but most of the time you are when you read. For Reader Response to happen, the reader must be active by thinking, connecting, and understanding that they actually are creating meaning as they read. They are understanding what they read, connecting their emotions or settings or their personality traits to the characters and story, and that's how Reader Response happens.

2. Reader Response can open our eyes to more truth as we read. Reader Response is when we try and connect to a text to make meaning from it. As we try to connect, we tend to see more of the character and theme of the story. Truthfully, when you read while half-asleep, you don't really get anything from it, right? That's one of the steps of Reader Response: be an active reader. As you use Reader Response, you're bound to find that there are just one or two things that you didn't know or realize before you read the text. Maybe you found out something about yourself through the thoughts of a character in a book. Maybe you try and connect to the thoughts of an author about a subject and it sheds a new light on it. When you open your mind to literature, you add your meaning to the text, but new truths from the book enter in your mind as well. Simply put, it's a two-way street.

3. It's important for us to interact and connect with literature. Without that connection, we would never get anything from literature. There would be no meaning to reading. If we don't interact and connect, it pretty much means we're not understanding. Even if we're reading a book that seems like it has absolutely nothing about us, people from past, present, 'future', and 'fiction' all have this thing called EMOTIONS. We'll connect to the feelings, if nothing else, and that will give us a better understanding of the piece of text. Imagine reading Harry Potter without connecting to his vividly described emotions and adventures. In the beginning of one book, J.K. Rowling starts off with Harry being bored over the summer. Now, everyone's felt this way before, and knows what it's like to not have anything to do (especially in the summer). If no one could connect to a story, either the story itself isn't good enough, or we are all just heartless, emotionless people who wouldn't be able to make meaning of anything in life. Or books.

4. There's a book I've read called The Luxe that showed me something new about this world. The Luxe is actually a book based on a different time in the past, but I saw something new about our world and our people through this book. Actually, I sort of connected to something in our modern world. The Luxe is about the socialites and elite of the Upper East Side. Hear that line anywhere before? Yes, Gossip Girl. Just reading about people back then doing similar things as the characters in Gossip Girl just made me realize that the characters of human beings don't change over time. There will always be that stereotype of rich and spoiled, and they actually think in the same ways. Unless some tragic accident happened and humans all lost thought, every generation has their Blair Waldorfs, the goody-two-shoes, the responsible people, and strangely, we all think and feel similar things. I know it's just fiction, but when I thought more about it, what the book is saying about people isn't made up.