How To Read Literature Like a Professor Outline Chapter 1 – Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It’s Not) Main Ideas: To have a quest‚ a novel must have A knight A dangerous path A holy grail An evil knight A dragon A princess The quest is always educational and provides knowledge of ones self Chapter 2 – Nice To Eat With You: Acts of Communion Main Ideas: It is a communion “Whenever people eat or drink together...” Breaking bread together is an act of sharing and peace
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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 Frankenstein‚ Mary Shelley uses symbolism and allegory to depict the actions of the main characters and what their actions truly mean. In How to Read Literature Like a professor‚ Thomas C. Foster asks his readers what you think a symbol stands for‚ Foster also writes “[whatever] you think it stands for‚ it probably does." (ninety-seven) Frankenstein contains many symbols‚ however there is only a few symbols that truly support our findings the whole nine yards. There are six specific symbols and
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Blake Allen How to Read Literature like a Professor Foster Allen Introduction memory symbol pattern These basic examples of literary analysis can be found in most literature from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to Paper town. Every Trip is a Quest “a quester‚ a place to go‚ a stated reason‚ challenges and trials en route‚ and a real reason” real reason is always self-knowledge In Romeo and Juliet‚ Romeo goes to the Capulet party because his friends dragged him along but the real reason was so
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Thomas C. Foster) Notes Introduction Archetypes: Faustian deal with the devil (i.e. trade soul for something he/she wants) Spring (i.e. youth‚ promise‚ rebirth‚ renewal‚ fertility) Comedic traits: tragic downfall is threatened but avoided hero wrestles with his/her own demons and comes out victorious What do I look for in literature? - A set of patterns - Interpretive options (readers draw their own conclusions but must be able to support it) - Details ALL
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Birds are often the symbol of freedom and peace in literature. Birds are very majestic‚ beautiful‚ and whimsical animals. There are thousands of different colors and breeds of birds living all across the globe. There is a particular bird that lives in the south of the United States called the mocking bird. These birds are known for mimicking the sounds of amphibian and insects sounds as well as other bird sounds but louder and more rapid. There about 17 different species of mocking birds. The mocking
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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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Erica Gillum English composition Mrs.Kilgour November 1‚ 2012 To Kill a Mocking Bird The book To Kill A Mocking Bird‚ by Harper Lee‚ takes readers on a journey though Scout Finch’s childhood. In the book‚ Scout‚ who lives in a racist town in Southern Alabama with her father Atticus and brother jem‚ must learn to deal witht the unjust jerdict of a black man accused of rape‚ a mysterious neighboor‚ and all of normal childhood trials all children go through. In the book there are three diffrent
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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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In the book To Kill A Mocking Bird there is a constant battle for human morality‚ and the book is constant in showing the struggle of goodness or evilness in people. Atticus‚ who is the father of Scout and Jem‚ who also plays the role of teacher for his children‚firmly believs that people all posses the ability to do good in the world‚ equally so they posses the ability to perform evil acts as well. Although‚ Atticus is convinced that despite the struggle between good and evil‚ good will ultimately
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