How To Read Literature Like A Professor Chapter Analysis

In the first chapter of Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Foster discusses the five aspects of a typical character’s quest and alerts all readers that “when a character hits the road, we should start to pay attention” (6). To start out the chapter a rather dull scene is set of a young boy commuting to a store to retrieve bread for his mother. Foster reveals that the seemingly unimportant commute is actually a quest. It is determined that “a quester” (3), a destination, an obvious reason for the travel, trials and tribulations and a real reason are all necessities to a character’s quest. While differentiating the obvious reason and the real reason can be challenging, Foster explains that the obvious reason to a quest