Clue #1

*WHAT IS A BEAUTY?

- Beauty could be defined as some thing's attractive quality or features. I define beauty as the feeling, emotion, or expression that we feel when we see something. It is like a response; personal thought of a object, thing, or someone. It is only accountable with your senses, mind, and your soul. There is no standardized beauty; every body's point of view is different. Beauty is basically something that brings enjoyment to the person who contemplates.

*2 Bible Verses about God's view of beauty:

1 Peter 3:3-6 (New International Version)
- 3Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. 4Instead, 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. 5For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands, 6like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her master. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.

1 Samuel 16:7 (New International Version)
7 But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."

Q#1) In your own words, please summarize what Reader Response analysis is, and what steps are involved.
- Reader Response analysis is a way of acknowledging your personal perspective or connection between the text. Readers Response doesn't really have a exact objective meaning, or a true answer for what the text for the literature means. The Reader Response makes up a meaning for the certain text in the literacy. The author of course would have put morals and themes already to communicate what he was going to say, but then the reader might be able to find other meanings the author wouldn't have purposely put in. The Readers Response comes from the reader's experience, mood, thought, mind, soul, heart, etc. This means that the Readers Response will be based on their own ideas and experience.
- The Readers Response always needs a text of literature with a reader. These two make up a meaning which is basically a personal response towards the literature. It is a connection of the reader with the text. The Response also requires a reader who thinks, concentrates, understands with broad mind of thinking, pays attention beneath the text of the literacy.

Q#2) How can Reader Response open our eyes to more truth as we read?
- The Reader Response open our eyes to more truth as we read. It does make us realize more truth and facts because as we connect with our experiences and personal thoughts. We begin to realize what events occurred. We also find out how we are suppose to resolve in those situations. The story will mostly tell how the character will resolve a problem. Also, since lot of stories and texts of literacy relate to conflicts and hardship, they give us morals and themes that we can apply to our life. After we apply those morals and themes, we will have more knowledge about the kind of conflict. Additionally, we will be able to understand the story; how the story flows. I had time when reading "The Marigolds", I didn't get what the story was. But as I used the reader response skill, looking over back and taking a closer look in every part, I was able to understand the story.

Q#3) Why is it important for you to interact/connect with literature?
- It is very important for you to interact or connect with the literature. It is very important because through these connections, you will be able to find out more other occurrences and life morals. In other words, you will learn new different knowledge that fits in different situations. Additionally, you will be able to find out what other people had experienced. In other words, you can communicate with the author. It is also important because you practice thinking, concentrating, understanding literature, etc. This also includes practicing reading. As you do more reader response, it means that you are reading more and more books. You also acknowledge the reading skills and the skills of literature. Imagery, tone, dialogue, type of language, and many more are included on this section. Through connecting, you will be able to accomplish a lot.

Q#4) Reflect on a book or story you have read recently and what new truth about the world you learned from that narrative.
*Sherlock Holmes*
This story is a mystery and a detective novel, which discusses about crimes, murder, some of psychology, and many more. Most of the times it just is a story where Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, his friend, goes around London, or outside of London solving mystery crimes. The main part that I found out was when Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson first met. Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes first met as a roomate when Dr. Watson came back after the Afghanistan war. They were just getting to know each other, when they got into discussing about reasoning. Sherlock Holmes said that you can find out the basic background of the person by the way the person acts, thinks, physical outlook, etc. This was quite when I was young when I read this, I felt kind of amazed because it was terribly difficult for me to find out the background of a person by just looking at a person.