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"Why did this character behave in this way?"

"Because that's what the author wrote."

We need a way of helping people jump through those hoops because rejecting the premise of litrature analysis is unlikely to go well for powerless children.

Changing it from analysing[1] the literature into hacking te teacher may work. "Your teacher has these cognitive oddities. How many can you discover?"

[1] I suspect a bit of programming with plenty of graphs of sentiment analysis or character interactions would not be well received in those classes.



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