"With the Grain"
When reading with the grain we, as the readers, are trying to see something through the same point of view as the author. We are trying to see the world the way that they do which can help us extend a writer's project because we know what they know. Whenever I listen to music, I look at they lyrics of a song and try to feel what the writer feels. This helps me get a better understanding of where they are coming from so that the song has a greater meaning.
"Against the Grain"
When reading against the grain, we are taught to read critically and question everything and anything the author says. This is a time when we look at the reading from many different perspectives, rather than just the authors point of view. It is said that reading "against the grain" is almost like disagreeing with an author to find bias in their writing. In high school, my government teacher was talking about how textbooks are written in bias to make us believe that what they are saying is the only way we should look at certain topics. Now, when I read textbooks I try to read between the lines and not believe exactly what the author of the text is saying because I want to form my own opinions of these topics.
excellent example with the textbooks! Yes, unequivocally, textbooks give the illusion that, for instance, "history" is a unified topic that can be grasped and understood in its entirety and in just the way the book puts it.
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