When reading a novel, the reader gets intimately attached to the sequence of events described in the book. The moods of the reader and his expectation of the outcome of the current scene read keeps varying in different degrees. At the end of the book reading his opinion on the book varies according to his intimate attachment or the memory of the varying sequential events. If the reader “likes” the book he “interprets” the events and personality of the characters and tries to imitate or recall the novel in his daily life. If he does not understand OR if he dislikes the story OR had something else in mind about how the events and characters should have been he makes a critical analysis of the book.
An interpretation is a series of thought which is logic based analysis of the book events and characters, and how the mind of the interpreter is oriented in a positive sense. Until he picks up a new book to gain more knowledge and new “experiences” (of the characters in the book) he will be fresh with all the interpretations he makes. When he picks up a new book his expectations will be oriented in a new way (= thought process before reading first book + interpretations of the first book that have been fully understood). If the new book also is an “add on” giving him the same type of “experiences” or “more” he likes the new book also and interprets it thus assimilating new “knowledge”.
If the new book does not add-on new experiences the series of logic based analysis of thought becomes negatively oriented and “interpretation” becomes a “critical analysis”. The reader will use every circumstance in his “present” experience to prove that what was written had no meaning as he is not able to gain anything new OR does not even see any similarity in “his” life and the sequence of events in the book. In simple words he rejects the book as well as its author…
