reading questions

“Reading the Word and the World” Reading Questions

1. Why is reading so important according to the author?

2. What does the author mean by “the particular world in which I moved”?

3. What is your “1st world” like?

4. The author mentions that ghosts were something adults talked about…what is your earliest memory of “adult conversation”?

5. How is this a different way of discussing reading?

6. How do you see this reading tying into the Catholic Intellectual Tradition?

7. What is the relationship between word and world?