Sucking Them In (Ch 6)

I know we didn't have to complete the rest of the chapters with our blogs, but I'm using this as a good way to review the last two chapters I read.
I never thought about how important it is to make people understand codes. It seems that so many of the codes are taught at such a young age that you don't have to worry about making sure things are getting decoded properly. This chapter shows the great depths one takes to have their work decoded. Any writer must know about points of view and how they work, or how they can help your story along. This gives the reader clues to how the work should be read and what tone it should be read in. But I never thought about how TV has to use basically one point of view, and yet they have to try and portray everything like a book does. People know that movies aren't real and that's why it is sometimes disconcerting when a fictional character from a show looks into the camera lens and directs the conversation to you. As a viewer, you know it's not right. Some movies allow a camera to actually be a character such as "District 9". By making it look like a documentary at first, so as a viewer you accept the personal contact.
The other part I liked was the idea of genres and how they are meant to help the reader know exactly what they're getting themselves into. If you pick up a western, or a fantasy that's what your expecting to get. You get what you see is the motto of genre fiction, no surprises.
The most interesting part in this whole chapter I felt like was the last paragraph and the whole idea that life imitates art, and not the other way around. At first this doesn't make much since, but then you realize how true it is. Look throughout history, the things that were once sci-fi are now coming to be, and often times it seems that it is the fiction that inspires the reality.