Read the passage from "How Should One Read a Book?” The thirty-two chapters of a novel—if we consider how to read a novel first—are an attempt to make something as formed and controlled as a building: but words are more impalpable than bricks; reading is a longer and more complicated process than seeing. The author’s purpose in this passage is to

The passage explains how a novel is constructed and why reading it takes more effort than looking at a building: words are less tangible than bricks, and reading is a longer process than seeing. Its main purpose is to inform readers about the nature of reading a novel, rather than to entertain or argue for a specific position.

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