I am having trouble coming up with questions for novels/etc. It seems a bit more obvious to me the kinds of questions and purposes you could have from a text book on law(just read some topics) because you are looking for specific information about a specific something that you are studying. With a novel, I cant seem to do that. I have to read them a lot for school.
Right now I have to read the red badge of courage. My purpose of the book(not sure if this would qualify as my purpose under PR, but I certainly know its why I am reading the book) is because I have to and need to get a good grade on the test. I dont know if that counts as my purpose under PRing or not, but that is why I have to read it. With questions, I am completely lost. All I have been able to come up with is stuff like:
1. Who is henry fleming(the main character mentioned on back of book...)
2. How did he get involved in the war?(the book is about him going to war)
And besides that im completely lost. I know the book is about him going to war, there isnt chapter names for me to look for when trying to form questions. I notice that the majority of the book is about him being at war. What kinds of questions and purposes should I have for this kind of thing? "I am reading this to be able to make a good grade on a multiple choice test(I hope anyways..)?"
Or what? I have always noticed I have had problems forming questions and such for novels. There isn't ever much to guide me like in textbooks where each section has its own bold faced title telling what the section is about, etc. I just read some more about activation and saw the idea of imagining you were sitting down with the writer and could ask questions. What would you ask. The thing is, its for school test. I dont know what I need to ask because I dont know the questions the teacher will ask. I need to simply understand the book and everything that goes on in it I believe...Thats how most book tests are for novels at school.
I have never gotten activation down and I believe a main problem is I have never gotten the purpose/question part down. It would make sense. I really want to try and start understanding and having the system work for me with this book. It is a book that isn't too long, 90 pgs., and our class has 4 weeks till the test basically. It would be a great one to practice on because its short and there is time to do it, and it would also get school work out of the way. I don't have a lot of time to sit around and pick any book to do that I would have limitless time on, because I have school books to read! So this school book is a great one to practice on. I have tried it before but have never gotten it down. I believe what has happened is I have just activated so many times so slowly, in turn I eventually read most of the book from the start. Just not straight through. lol. And didn't even feel like I had much of an understanding afterwards. Maybe one of my problems is I don't know all the proper techniques? I am trying to learn straight from the book because I have no money. I never really got the tangerine technique down, or anything like that. All I can do so far is simply look around trying to find words to form questions out of, which once I get them I have trouble forming questions. I can easily see the blip no problem and things like that, but am not sure if my mind is clear enough for it to even be working. I have read your not supposed to think about anything else and such when PR, but that just never has worked for me. My mind starts to wander a little and I try and bring it back, but then I find it wandering again. If I am supposed to go into like a complete hypnosis state, that has never worked. When I am PR, I am aware of whats going on around me. If people are yelling downstairs, sometimes my mind starts focusing on their conversation. If my mom calls me to come eat, I easily hear her and know she said it, im not so out of it into a PR state that I dont realize whats going on. As I PR, I realize when I get to a new chapter because I see the bold words saying Chapter 2(although I cant necessarily read them, I know they say that) and I know when I have gotten to the end of the book and have ran into extra notes at the end of the book. In textbooks I know when I have gone through the section I was supposed to PR and dont suddenly pop out of my PR state at the end of the whole textbook. Is this normal? Or am I supposed to be completely out of it in a trance that I dont know where I am or what Ive read in the book?
[This message has been edited by superman857 (edited September 25, 2003).]
