Reader Response on two novels: “The Changing Tides” and “The Hungry Tide” The skill of interpreting the text content on reading of the books taken for reference - Expression Comprehended

Abstract

The paper is a representation of the ‘reader-response’ theory and its effectiveness in comprehending fictions of interest. The theoretical approach deliberates the efficacy of the theory to the reader and implies its usage to the audience. A comparative self-assesses thought processes can be derived out of the understanding of the reader-response theory. It is on this pretext that this paper has been patterned as a comparative analysis of the novels ‘Hungry Tides’ by Amitav Ghosh and ‘Changing Tides’ by a Zambian writer, Michael Mulilo. Both of them have discussed a change and a requirement as essential in a society. Amitav’s work is on environmental protection and challenges that exists which need to be resolved. On the other hand, Micheal Mulilo’s version relies on the change as required in the existing governance of the nation with the challenges as faced by the tribal clan as general public. Both the fictions are relatively an exposure to the negatives of the society as well as the non-governance existence of reality. The hegemony of the governmental systems are also taken to discussion on a comparative basis of literary expression.