LITR240-1301B-07 PHASE5 IP
LITERATURE UNDER THE MICROSCOPE 1
LITERATURE UNDER THE MICROSCOPE 2
Describing or defining something as complex as literature we should look at it from each angle, or better yet as if it was under a microscope. It is always easier to understand something by seeing what makes up the sum of its parts. By taking the themes, settings and tone from a story and really picking it apart is the best way I have found to truly understand what the author wants to convey to us all. Taking each piece of information and following each bread crumb is the best way I know of to understand a story, author or literature in general. As always the best place to start is the beginning, so understanding the terms that make up literature is just as important as the examples that are used.
Understanding the setting of a story can give the reader a feeling of being there within the story. The goal of any author is to transport the reader to the world they have created and to experience what that author wants to show them. The setting of a story is defined as “the context in which the action of a story occurs.”(Meyer, 2011) That definition sounds pretty bland, so I would say that the setting is the environment where the story takes place. A story that really speaks to you through the setting is “Battle Royal” by Ralph Ellison. In the story the setting is in an unknown town in the southern US, and the time period is the 1930`s, knowing this information is very critical to how you look at the story, and how you see the characters. The author tells of a young boy being beset on all sides by race, and this sets up the plot while giving you an insight to why the characters act in a way they do. A great example of the time period in the story is when the boy`s grandfather says “our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days”
LITERATURE UNDER THE MICROSCOPE 2
Describing or defining something as complex as literature we should look at it from each angle, or better yet as if it was under a microscope. It is always easier to understand something by seeing what makes up the sum of its parts. By taking the themes, settings and tone from a story and really picking it apart is the best way I have found to truly understand what the author wants to convey to us all. Taking each piece of information and following each bread crumb is the best way I know of to understand a story, author or literature in general. As always the best place to start is the beginning, so understanding the terms that make up literature is just as important as the examples that are used.
Understanding the setting of a story can give the reader a feeling of being there within the story. The goal of any author is to transport the reader to the world they have created and to experience what that author wants to show them. The setting of a story is defined as “the context in which the action of a story occurs.”(Meyer, 2011) That definition sounds pretty bland, so I would say that the setting is the environment where the story takes place. A story that really speaks to you through the setting is “Battle Royal” by Ralph Ellison. In the story the setting is in an unknown town in the southern US, and the time period is the 1930`s, knowing this information is very critical to how you look at the story, and how you see the characters. The author tells of a young boy being beset on all sides by race, and this sets up the plot while giving you an insight to why the characters act in a way they do. A great example of the time period in the story is when the boy`s grandfather says “our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days”