Having my say

At times I have to stop and think to myself while reading a book or story for a class. Teachers generally say there is symbolism in every book and sometimes multiple times on a single page. Has anyone ever stopped to think that maybe we are overanalysing things? Perhaps they wrote a book just to write a book. Maybe they just put a specific word there because no other words had the same effect that it did. This is nothing personal to anyone but I believe that most stories are just that, A STORY.