We’ve all been forced to read books in school before, and the teachers have always told us to think about the ‘hidden meanings’ the author supposedly put in the book. But did the author always really mean to put those meanings in the book? Or are the teachers just over analyzing it?

Why would the author put hidden meanings in a book? When he or she writes, the writer isn’t composing the book for an English class, but more for any reader that picks it up off a book store shelf. Chances are, when the owner of the book is reading it, they aren’t looking for hidden meanings, they’re just reading the book for fun. And of course the author knows that. So what’s the point of putting them in anyway?

All we know is that this is a case of our English teachers preparing us for high school, and we may never even know if the authors meant for these hidden meanings to be in their books.