Joe Harris wrote a chapter explaining different ways on how a reader should respect the writer’sidea. He talked about three stories and gives three main examples of what a writer should dowhen interpreting other writers text. Joe Harris gives an example of how readers sometimes mustput the text in their own meaning, when the main character in Pierre Menard had to rewrite someof Cervantes don Quixote writing in order to understand it. We sometimes need to rewrite thetext for us to understand. First Harris identifies what the reader should be doing instead offinding simple or easy answered questions the reader should be asking themselves, “An Authorsproject” (Harris pg17). A project is more than one question, it involves a set of instructions thatrequire a process to complete. The writer might not always include a main thesis or a set of ideas.Joe Harris then says readers have to ask themselves questions, “to define the product of thewriters is thus to push beyond the text, to hazard a view about not only what someone said butalso what he was trying to accomplish by saying it” (Harris Pg17). Readers sometimes must findclues and words that they don't know to discover the deeper meaning of a text. Not all texts aregoing to be easy to find the meaning of, but after a deep analysis the reader should find the aims
