Nabokov Essay Blog #33 Identify the method(s) of introduction. What characterizes the conclusion?

The introduction in "Good Readers and Good Writers" is an unusally long introduction. Vladimir Nabokov actually writes several paragraphs in his introdction of this essay. He uses these several introduction paragraphs to explain what his definitions of good reading and good writing really are. He asks you different types of questions in the essay when he is trying to define what good reading and writing are. Nabokov asks you these different questions because he wants you to use your own imagination to think about the things he is saying. Imagination is one of the things Vladimir Nabokov says you need to be a good reader and/ or a good writer.

The conclusion, of course, is identified because it is as the end of the essay but also because Vladimir Nabokov is trying to tie up all the loose ends in the essay. He pulls all of his mains points together and talks about needing to be able to teach a lesson, enchante the reader, and tell a story all at the same time to be a good reader and a good writer. Saying all of these things together are Vladimir Nabokov's method of summing up the whole essay with the conclusion. The three different things I mentioned before were the characterizations of the conclusion. When he started to put those things together in the same paragraph I could tell that the essay was coming to an end.