How to Read Literature Like a Professor Introduction: How’d He Do That? Conventions in stories: Types of characters Plot rhythms Chapter structures Point-of-view limitations Chapter 1: Every Trip is a Quest (Except When It’s Not) The reason for a quest is always self-knowledge The stated reason is never the actual reason to go on a quest‚ the real reason for a quest is self-knowledge. Most of the time‚ when a piece of literature involves someone going somewhere and doing something‚ it
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• “Every trip is a quest.” In the book How to Read Literature like a Professor it states in every novel “every trip is a quest” and consists of so many things such as a quester‚ a place to go‚ a stated reason to go there‚ challenges and trails en route‚ and a real reason to go there. In the book The Fault in Our Stars there is a scene that goes perfectly with this‚ when Augustus takes Hazel to meet her beloved author Van Houten. In the book they have a quester which is Hazel. They have a place to
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The primary virtue of How to Read Literature Like a Professor is it’s "duh’ factor. Take this trick question: In a lake‚ there are a patch of lilies‚ which double in size every day. If this patch of lilies take 48 days to cover the entire lake‚ how many days would it take for the patch to cover the entire lake? Maybe you think you know the answer. Maybe you have no clue. But then you hear the answer. That it takes 47 days for the lilies to cover half of the pond. It’s that feeling - that the knowledge
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In “How to Read Literature like a Professor” Foster conveys new insight to books and movies. He explains about literature that isn’t just on the surface. He explains how the author chooses the correct season to put the movie in. Foster talks about the true meaning of flight. He also tells of what water means. The movie The Longest Ride connects with chapter 20. The movie is set at the end of summer about to be the start of summer. An art student‚ Sophia‚ is about to graduate from college and
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community owns it’s own type of myth belief system. Myths can be in different forms in literature‚ paintings‚ and music. All of these forms tell a story‚ even though it is difficult to notice the story it is trying to tell. The literature form of myths is used by modern writers because the situations between the myths and the modern literature writing is very much alike. These comparisons are parallels‚ but how the myths are used and written in the modern world are ironized. A lot of the important
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chapter 12‚ of How to Read Literature Like A Professor‚ Thomas Foster describes how a writer might symbolize almost everything in a novel: starting with a simple object to the most complex characters. According to Foster‚ not everyone will find a symbol; those that eventually do however will not interpret the meaning of the symbol the same way as others do. Some writers use direct symbols‚ but some let us use our imagination to find the true hidden meaning. In addition‚ Foster explains how if we want
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How To Read Literature Like A Professor Introduction: Memory‚ symbol‚ and pattern all affect literature in different ways. When reading literature‚ it’s a wonderful asset to have a good memory and use that whenever you can. If you remember something you read from a novel two months ago and then apply that knowledge to an essay‚ your writing style and essay will improve greatly with such great examples. Symbol affects the way you read literature because when you recognize something symbolic
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In the interlude and the eleventh chapter of Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor‚ Foster analyzes the different effects violence has in literature. Firstly‚ Foster distinguishes that there are two different types of violence in literature. The first form of violence is when a specific injury is brought upon a character by themselves or another character through “shootings‚ stabbings‚ garrotings‚ drownings‚ poisonings‚ bludgeonings‚ bombings” and other harmful means (96). Contrasting
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Analysis: Compare chapter 11: How to Read Literature Like a Professor-“…More Than It’s Gonna Hurt You: Concerning Violence” to chapter 2 (part 2) of The Fountainhead. At the beginning or chapter two of The Fountainhead‚ Dominique is thinking about Roark again. She is thinking about his body in ways no one can imagine. Then Dominique destroys her fireplace on purpose just to have Roark come over to her house. But when he does come over‚ Roark completely ignores Dominique. He leaves and then he comes
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How To Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 1: Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It’s Not) In Chapter 1 the author explains the symbolic reasoning of why a character takes a trip. They don’t just take a trip they take a quest. Structurally a quest has a quester‚ a place to go‚ a stated reason to go there‚ challenges and trials en route‚ and a reason to go there. Quests usually involve characters such as a knight‚ a dangerous road‚ a Holy Grail‚ a dragon‚ an evil knight‚ and a princess
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