• “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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Chapter 1: “Every Trip is a Quest (Except when it’s not)” Summary: * The real reason for a quest is self knowledge‚ usually by younger kids trying to gain self knowledge. * Where there is a quester there is going to be challenges to overcome‚ but the real reason for a quest never involves the stated reason. * Quests are purely educational. Connection: In the Raven by Edgar Allen Poe he pays very close attention to details and talks with great imagery
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Chapter 22: He’s Blind for a Reason‚ You Know In Thomas C. Foster’s‚ How to Read Literature Like a Professor‚ Foster talks about blindness not only as a burden‚ but as a gift. He tries to convey to the audience that blindness in stories goes beyond physical meaning. He also talks about how to catch important details early in a story or movie. The three main points Foster asserts in this chapter are sacrifice‚ commonly missed word usage‚ and if you want something known‚ make it known early. One
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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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n chapter 9 of How to read literature like a professor‚ Foster goes into the topic of myths. There are three kinds of myths that Foster mentioned beforehand :shakespearean biblical‚and fairy tale myths. In this chapter however‚ he goes more deeply in myths from the Greeks and Romans. According to Foster‚ myths shape and sustain power of a story the and its symbols; show our ability to to explain ourselves; myths are so deeply ingrained our cultural memory that they both shape our culture and are
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Seasons have had control over the way people have been living since the beginning of time‚ and because of that‚ seasons have dominance over a novel that often goes unnoticed; by creating an atmosphere that readers can relate to. All seasons have certain aspects of life associated with them Thomas C. Foster writes about this in his book How to Read Like a Professor: For about as long as anyone’s been writing anything‚ the seasons have stood for the same set of meanings. Maybe it’s hard-wired
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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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Summer Reading Questions Chapter One: A casual definition of a quester would be an individual that goes on a quest‚ or mission‚ in hopes of looking for something. However‚ in How to Think like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster‚ we are challenged to look at this term in a very different and mind stimulating way. Foster challenges our minds to look at quests as everyday things. Foster points out 5 aspects to every quest and how we can find these within everyday situations. These include; the quester
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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 as
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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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