Have you ever read the same book as someone else?

So, have you and your best friend read the same book and talk and giggle about it all day?  Did you read The Hobbit after your mother? Did you read Percy Jackson with your classmate?  You might have read the story, but I can guarantee you, you did not read the same book.  You each saw and experienced different emotion throughout the book.  There is no way you will ever read a book the same way as me--because you are not me.  That's an incredible idea with literature.  Literature is shaped by your own lives and experiences.  Depending on what you have gone through, a story can be entirely changed by who you are that no one can every quite understand.  WHOAH! MIND BLOWN!