There are three elements to reader-response: the reader, the text, and the context. In Rosenblatt's (1983) view, reading is not a passive act. When readers read, they bring their own experiences to the selection. There is no one true interpretation, as the reader is the active creator of responses. Readers re-create the text for themselves. They do this by bringing forward their own understandings about how texts work as well as their own beliefs and expectations. A reader creates his or her own meanings, not one specific meaning that the author of the text may want the reader to achieve.