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¶ … managed to captivate most of Auster's points-of-view and that the paper is generally meant to provide readers with a better understanding of the book. One of the best methods to gain a complex understanding of the book is to read its cover, its preface, and its introduction, even with the fact that some people might find these things to be boring. Many are also likely to refrain from reading these parts of a book because they believe they might take away from the suspense that they are about to come across. While this is true in many occasions, one needs to understand that being able to get a complex understanding of a book is one of the most important things when reading, especially considering that most people do not read a book twice.

The writer manages to make the connection between the two parts of the book. However, it is more difficult for him (and for most readers) to realize that the first part was especially designed to prepare readers in order to be able to read the second part. Although the writer emphasizes the fact that memoirs can be boring, this is not always true and this book stands as a perfect example contradicting his theory. Both parts of the book are interconnected and they function as a more general memoir -- one in which readers are not only presented with the experiences that the author went through, as they are also provided with the opportunity to learn more concerning his thinking and the way that it progressed over the years.

I share the writer's thinking when regarding the first part of the book being "a reflection of Auster's feelings and emotions for his father."

2. From my perspective, this writer perfectly manages to understand Auster's intention in changing his writing technique in the second part of the book. This writer identifies Auster's abstract techniques and is able to understand that the author introduces a series of elements meant to put across a much more complex account in the second part of the book. The fact that he uses third person to describe himself and his emotions certainly contributes to strengthening his connection with readers. Readers are practically influenced to believe that the author himself is very similar to them as a result of trying to interpret his thoughts.

The writer is right in thinking that the author was not only concerned about providing readers with an interesting account, as he actually wanted to join them in trying to perform a self-analysis process that would enable him to gain a better understanding of how his thinking reflects on him.