At its simplest, reading is “an activity that is guided by the text; this must be processed by the reader who is then, in turn, affected by what he has processed” (Iser 63). The text is the compass and map, the reader is the explorer. However, the explorer cannot disregard those unexpected boulders in the path which he or she encounters along the journey that are not written on the map. Likewise, a man whom is experiencing a where a father would force him to become someone who he aren’t really is, would likely to read a piece of literature like “The Conversion” by Jose Neil P. Garcia, which paints about not having the freedom to choose who you want to be and maltreating a man whom has a heart of a girl. We all live in a cruel society. Judging there, maltreating here. As Cria Colfer states: "There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong…show more content… Likely, he seems to understands his father and uncle’s intentions and that contrary to the older males justifications. It might just meant that his father and uncle’s only wanted him to be toughen up. But then the boy is captured and dunked over and over again in the metal drum, a demand for a choice has to be made correct answer. The boy speaks to himself , but then he let the girl banish and emerge from that drum, and reborn as a full blooded male. The decision was made and sinking into the boy’s mind that was the only way. And so the boy does convert and he learns how a man must act and feel. Then the image of the drowned girl that he was then helpless to defend and save continues to haunt the man. Through another variety of liquid, the persona deadens himself – his denial of the girl within him making him as hollow as the now empty drum, a ghost of a man. The boy didn’t choose to be happy and to be true to himself, and rather he had just forget whom he was in the first
