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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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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How to Read Literature Like a Professor Essay By: Naomi Brooks Introduction How’d He Do That? Professors use memorization when reading a new book because they are always looking for correspondences between new and old books. Everything is a symbol until proven wrong‚ since symbolism is used when they are reading‚ thinking‚ and asking questions such as: is this an analogy‚ metaphor‚ or what might it signify? With time professors remember significant events‚ and patterns in novels
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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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Do you want to read a book and fully understand the deeper meaning of the book? If you do‚ the book How to Read Literature Like a Literature Professor by Thomas C. Foster is the ideal book to learn the deeper meaning of events‚ how to decode symbolism and how to read novels more effectively. In addition this book will give you various examples on how to spot out certain things that change the actual meaning of the story. The book How to Read Literature like a Professor helps one get a better understanding
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In 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
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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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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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Alexis Carino 7/31/10 Paragraph Reviews Chapter One: Every Trip is a Quest (Except When It’s Not) In the opening chapter of Thomas C. Foster’s book‚ he explains the importance of a Quest. It is quite hard to figure out a quest‚ Foster explains that in an example about a young boy who goes to the supermarket and encounters his “nemesis.” Quests are the core base of a story since it involves just about everything a story is trying to portray. For example it includes the quester‚ a place to go‚ a
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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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