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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When you read a book or a story that was written long ago‚ you feel that you have been carried away into the time that the story was created. Literature is very diffferent around the world‚ every country has its different stories‚ even if they were written hundreds of years ago‚ or a few years ago.Literature written in the past is very important for us know‚ because it helps us understand what was going on during the time that the story was written. It allows us to know what our country or other
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At the turn of the millennium‚ hurricanes‚ tropical storms‚ and dramatic temperatures ruled planet Earth. In the 2004 Hurricane season‚ four storms affected Florida which is the only time in recorded history a catastrophe like this has happened. In 2005‚ Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc in the New Orleans area‚ bringing over one hundred billion dollars of damages; making thousands of people homeless‚ mostly minorities‚ and killing many others. The Federal Government‚ unprepared for this unforeseen
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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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Does everything in “How to Read Literature Like a Professor” match “The Hobbit”? Breaking down “The Hobbit” will help to further conclude what concepts it does and does not follow in Thomas C. Foster’s book “How to Read Literature Like a Professor” The first step in telling if “The Hobbit” t is a quest‚ is finding out if “The Hobbit” had a quester. A quester as explained by Thomas C. Foster is just a person who goes on a quest‚ whether he knows it or not.The quester in the hobbit is Bilbo Baggins
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In Thomas C. Fosters How to Read Literature like a Professor‚ Foster expresses how every story has a journey that someone or sometimes multiple people go on specific journeys. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus‚ the novel is based on exactly that‚ a journey. One journey is Victor Frankenstein’s quest for knowledge. Foster says that “The real reason for a quest is always self knowledge.” Victor Frankenstein is the perfect example of this; Frankenstein sets out on a journey to
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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
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Heart Problems Within chapter 23 of How to Read Literature Like a Professor‚ Thomas Foster discusses the in-depth reasons authors use heart complications in novels and the meaning it can add to a story. Throughout The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne uses these various heart techniques that Foster talks about to further emphasize character’s personalities and guilt. Guilt is an emotion Hawthorne used to cause pains within Reverend Dimmesdale. At the beginning of the novel‚ Dimmesdale is seen
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