Studies of how readers respond to fiction often emphasize the "transportation" effect — the absorption that allows readers to lose themselves in a story. Critic Tomas Endres argues that transportation, though real, has been overemphasized. The pleasures of fiction also include skeptical attention, rereading, and even resistance — moments when a reader pushes back against the text. To privilege absorption is to miss half of what readers actually do.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
- A
Fiction has no effect on readers.
- B
Transportation is the only legitimate response to fiction.
- Ccheck_circle
Endres argues that readers' active and skeptical engagements deserve attention alongside the well-studied transportation effect.
- D
Readers cannot be absorbed by fiction.
Explanation
The passage's central claim balances transportation with active engagement — B. A is the view critiqued; C and D contradict.