"Ways of Seeing," and "Coming to Terms"

John Berger's piece "Ways of Seeing," reiterated some points that Benjamin made in his piece from Monday. He brings up reproduction and explains that the way we are able to see art has changed dramatically. Just like Benjamin mentioned about reproduced art being more readily available to mass culture instead of the elite high culture it was at originally, Berger adds that reproduced art has in fact taken away from its original meaning and has instead put a synthetic value on these once authentic amazing works of art.
In chapter 1 of Joseph Harris' book, he talks about how we were programed in a way to just read what a writer wrote, but not fully understand the meaning behind it. Therefore, in this chapter he describes the necessity of close reading in order to interpret that writer's work, while presenting our own side to it, instead of just copying. By doing so, we will have a better understanding of critical writing, because we've taken the time to fully interpret the words.