How to Read Literature Like a Professor

1. Memory, symbol and pattern affect the reading of literature by separating the professional reader from the rest of the crowd. Memory of what happened allows you to enjoy later scenes of a book of a movie, yet this does not necessarily improve the experience of popular entertainment. When reading you have to assume everything is a symbol until proven otherwise. Its good to think of things as existing as themselves while simultaneously also representing something else. Patterns are everywhere. While reading you take in detail yet also look at how the details have an underling pattern This means that you have to distance yourself from the story and look beyond the basic story.

2. The five aspects of the quest are; 1. The quested, 2. A place to go, 3. A stated reason to go there, 4. Challenges and trials, 5. The real reason to go. A quested means a person going on a quest but in most cases that person doesn’t know that they are going on a quest. A place to go and a stated reason to go there means someone tells the protagonist to go somewhere and do something. The real reason to go means that the real reason for a quest is to always find self knowledge.
5.1) Our quester: a young child just out of high school. She is not happy with her parents decisions so she decided to make decisions for herself.
5.2) A place to go: she escapes to NY.
5.3)A stated reason to go there: She escapes to New York because that is where her sister escaped to many years ago. Her sister loves it and says there are many opportunities there no only for here but for her sister as well.
5.4)Challenges and trials: when she escapes to NY her brother end up coming up after high school as well and then eventually so do her crazy parents. She learns to cope with her strange parents “wanting to be poor” ideas her parents want to be poor so they dig through dumpsters and don’t shower and she doesn’t understand why they want to do that. She has to cope with their ways of life and still create