I’m trying to study for my Philosophy course and I need some help to understand this question.

answer the first two and respond to the classmates answer to the third question

1.Do you think that novels, plays, poems, or short stories can have true and false interpretations? How do you tell the difference between a true interpretation and a false one?

2.Getting into someone else’s mind. Is it possible? Does it already happen in some way in the contemporary world?

respond to the classmates answer to the third question. Do you agree or disagree and reason

3.Do you think that novels, plays, poems, or short stories can have true and false interpretations? How do you tell the difference between a true interpretation and a false one?

– I am a strong believer that there could be many interpretations to a text and it depends all on the reader. Novels, plays, poems, short stories and even movies can have true interpretations and possibly some false ones. I believe there is a false interpretation if it sways too far from what the author of the piece intended. For example I watched the movie, “Noah”. In this movie it was supposed to reflect Noah’s Arc in the bible but it did a horrible job. There was so many added features and effects that wasn’t even included in the Noah’s Arc story in the bible. While there could be people who believe that the author’s intent of a piece is what matters most, others like me believe a true interpretation lies on where your imagination takes you, unless if it’s too far from what the author intended.