What does it mean when a part of a book is revisited?

Question

Does that mean that that part is shorter or something..or revised??

Like for the book, "A Brave New World" which should I read..the regular part or the revisited part? The revisited one is shorter..but if I read that part with sprrknotes..will it be ok..or does it leave important things out?

thanks

Answer 1

always read the unabridged version of a book, and if you use spark notes or cliff notes, use them in addition to reading the entire text. teachers are smart, and they know how to ask questions that aren't covered in notes.

I've never heard of a 'revisited' part of a book before, but the answer earlier about going back to it seems accurate. If I had to guess, I would think that it is someone discussing that part of the book, not a rewrite by the author. Its probably a discussion. The visiting analogy above is good, but there are other ways to visit something than to go there physically. It would be more appropriate to think of youself sitting in a committee meeting of somesort that is trying to work out different issues. They start with issue one, but can't get anywhere on it, so they go on to issue two and three, and when they come back to issue one, they are revisiting issue one. Its a time to come back and look at the problem (passage in the book) and consider it again, maybe from a new perspective or with new information that you didn't know the first time you 'visited' the problem/passage.

Answer 2

It means a particular section or storyline in the book is coming back into discussion or view. Think of the book as a trip to Italy. You visited Rome, Pisa and Pompeii. Now, your itinerary wants you to revisit Rome to learn more about that city.