Critically reading

Wow!! It's crazy what you get out of a story when you critically read it. It makes the story way more intense and realistic. But I still am not very good at doing this, because I kind of just put my head down and push through the story. This is bad because then i only get the surface meaning of the story when theres actually much more to it. So hopefully i can get better at this because it would be very helpful when trying to understand a story!