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[quote=Anonymous]We were all really advanced readers in my family and my mom was always trying to get us to read the Brontes, etc.  The problem is that the subject matter (someone in an unfulfilling marriage, marrying for money, unrequited love, competition amongst people of various socioeconomic levels) often doesn't really resonate with someone young with no life experiences, even if technically you understand the plot, all the words, etc.  I remember reading Madame Bovary in high school and then reading it again after I had been married for several years, and was like "Oh, now I get it."

I was a very serious painist and I remember my piano teacher talking about a similar phenomenon, where young musicians struggle to convey emotions in music that they haven't actually experienced in real life yet. (i.e.  "What's the saddest thing you can think of?" as I'm learning a Chopin Nocturne.  "Uh, my dog dying?"  or a teacher suggesting to several of us that the music we were playing needed to convey more erotic emotion.  I hadn't even been kissed yet!  What?"
The disconnect between emotional maturity and life experience and "smarts" is real.  Asynchronous development.  It'll get you every time.[/quote]

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