Harper Collins, 1992. E.g., Neural Networks and Natural Intelligence, Ed. MIT Press, 1988. Understanding Reading, p. 28ff. At the moment quoted, Wendy is telling her own story to the Lost Boys, in chapter 11.
Many jokes depend on knowledge of underlying schemas.
The terrorists threatened that, if their demands were not met, they would release one journalist every hour. The joke depends on your knowledge of the usual schema for a hijacking and of an unrelated schema which maps a common antagonism between journalists and authorities. The joke gains its humor by unexpectedly switching the definition of the authorities' role from the first schema to the second. The Image, p. 10. No account of reading can ignore poignant stories of how the acquisition of literacy has cost some people their native culture and identity.