La mort de l'auteur

Okay kiddo, let me explain what "la mort de l'auteur" means. It's a fancy French phrase that means "the death of the author."

So, you know when you read a book or a story and it has a name on the front cover, that person is the author. The author is the one who wrote the story and came up with all the characters and events in it.

Now, some grown-up people like to talk about "la mort de l'auteur" because they think that once a book is written and published, the author's opinions and intentions don't matter as much as the reader's own interpretation of the story.

Basically, they're saying that once the book is out there in the world, readers can make their own meaning and understand it in their own way, rather than just following what the author meant or said about it.

It's like when you draw a picture or write a story at school and show it to your friends. They might say that they see something in it that you didn't think of, and that's okay because everyone can see things differently.

So, "la mort de l'auteur" is just a way of saying that once a story is written, the author's ideas and opinions don't have to be the only way to see it. Does that make sense?