After comparing my original reading of the text Simon and the Oaks to my re-reading of the text, Louise Rosenblatt's aesthetically based responses have led me to believe that my original enjoyment and understanding of the text has increased tenfold due to realization that I was taking great pleasure in dwelling in the experience of reading itself. Through this I am responding to the dynamics of literary experience which, as the implied reader, include developing anticipatory frameworks, developing an aesthetic stance and synthesizing everything I have read into parallel cultural experiences related to myself. I was also being affected by a simultaneous barrage of emotions, most of which were of approval and shock, as I found my relation to this book and in particular Simon to be amazingly close. Fredriksson's portrayal of Simon's love and experience of music particularly led me to my aesthetic based response.

Through my...