No, you're not damaging anything. I mean "break the story" in the way that on-the-scene news reporters use it. Placing yourself in a story is the only way you can really reflect on a story's meaning. What does that mean? It means visualizing the setting and seeing how it has an impact on events and characters' lives. It means understanding characters as emotional, thinking beings with motives. It's about bringing your understanding of how the world works to the author's story-world and working together to create a valuable learning experience. We read to learn.
So, how do we emphasize putting ourselves in the story? Quite simply, become part of the story as a witness, or more accurately, as a news reporter. News reporters look for important stories within their community that alert people to major crimes, city-developments, or other events that may impact their everyday lives. Similarly, good readers must be highly observant participants in a story-world in order to capture the major details and events that impact the meaning of the story.
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