l to know historical information about the worker’s revolution and the economic status of the country at that time. What was then ‘common knowledge’ for the reader is now a conscious effort to relate the story to the environmental circumstances that surrounded the story.Readers of fictional stories must try to be aware of the beliefs the story is dependent upon him or her to accept in order for the story to be logical. These beliefs are direct manifestations the author’s intentions. To achieve story competence, one must use the intentional heuristic with caution and care. Attempting to directly relate each and every phrase of a text back to the objectives of the author would not only be an exhausting task, but a useless one. Instead the audience should open a story with willingness to abandon certain convictions and replace them temporarily with those anticipated by the author....
