Speaker: Jerry Chou

Good morning. So good to see everyone here on such a nice day. Just another cool summer day in Texas. I am glad you appreciate the irony in that statement. I am not going to talk about irony in today’s message. But I do want to touch on a different literary topic. And that’s authorial intent- the message an author intended to communicate.

It is important for us to consider authorial intent when we watch or hear or read something. Because the actual message intended by the author is often deeper than the surface meaning of the particular words. Let me illustrate with an example from the movie “Frozen.” Many of you have probably heard of the song from the movie, “Do you want to build a snowman?”

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