reading critically

Reading these stories critically was really difficult for me.... I never see many of the symbols, I can understand them once they are explained to me or someone says something about them but I can never find them on my own. I spent a lot of time on the stories and trying to pick them apart and look for things that I didn't see before but I still only noticed a few things that were new to me. I think that reading critically did help me though to notice little details that I did not notice before. Reading critically also brought up many questions that I was not able to find the answers to.