How To Read Literature Like a Professor By Thomas C. Foster 1. Chapter 1- Every Trip Is A Quest (Except When It’s Not) a. The five aspects of the quest are the quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges and trials on the way, and the real reason to go there. When I read The Secret Life Of the Bees the quester was Lily, she was looking to go to Tiburon to find out more information about her mother and the past. On her journey she runs away from her father, falls in love, and
How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter Responses Introduction: How’d He Do That? The recognition of patterns makes it much easier to read complicated literature because recognizing patterns will help you relate two or more pieces of literature together, therefore making it easier to understand and analyze the literature you are focused on. Patterns in literature can help the reader understand plots, settings, themes, and other literary elements. I greatly appreciated the novel, Brave New
matter how many variations or ways you think you can write a story, in the end you will always be simply rewriting someone else's story, for you will just end up putting your own spin on it; basically an original work of literature does not exist, instead every story is a sibling or child of another story. This concept and idea is shared by some people, specifically Thomas C. Foster, the author of How to Read Literature Like A Professor. In Foster’s short book How to Read Literature Like A Professor
Authors tend to get very political in between the lines of their stories. In “How to Read Literature Like a Professor,” by Thomas C. Foster, there is a chapter that discusses about how almost every author gets political with their writing. “Nearly all writing is political on some level.” (“How to Read Literature Like a Professor” 118.) “Animal Farm,” “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave,” and “Nature” are some examples that’ll be used to prove this point. Authors’
In Chapter 12 of How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Foster discusses how symbols can possess multiple meanings due to the different ways that humans interpret literature. In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, many symbols can be up for interpretation by the reader. For example, a recurring symbol in this novel is the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. At the beginning of the novel, this light resembles Gatsby’s dream of having Daisy to himself. As Fitzgerald describes this
Ehren Lewis Mrs. Mary Smith Ap literature 20 September 2017 Analysis of Symbolism in”How to Read Literature Like a Professor” “How to read Literature like a Professor” by Thomas C. Foster is a very helpful book that goes over multiple literary strategies on how to read literature like a professor or someone with his literary skill. . With all of these literary strategies, symbolism is one that recurs frequently the throughout the entire book. Foster’s use of different techniques of symbolism
Nazi book burnings were proposed to control people even more by limiting what they were permitted to read and write. This action would be considered more violent than physical abuse, because the Nazis were taking control of the mind. Symbolism is utilized to demonstrate how words are used to symbolize destruction, and demonstrate that it could be as powerful as a weapon. According to How to Read
may feel sympathy for a character if a someone close to them dies in a violent way. Many authors rely on violence for their success as a writer. In the book How to Read Literature Like a Professor , the author, Thomas Foster reflects on how without the use of violence many writers would be nowhere today. “Violence is everywhere in literature. We’d lose most of Shakespeare without it ...Twain… Fitzgerald...Hemingway...and on and on” (Foster 103). Without the presence of violence, several authors would
It always seems that literature is hard to read: you know the writers have deeper meanings behind the stories they create, but what you read is mostly the simple plots that the characters play. Of course the writers utilize many techniques in their novels, but most of them are diluted into the hundreds of pages of the book, hidden around every corner of the words. Realizing this, Professor Foster writes How To Read Literature Like A Professor to teach how to interpret some of the aspects to understand
Violence is everywhere in literature. Many authors use violence in their writing to capture a reader’s attention and to convey their message strongly. In literature, violence was used for a purpose. Antigone is filled with many violent imagery, countless arguments causing conflict between characters, and the violence of many murders and suicides. Pride, myth, and gender inequality are also major themes throughout the play. In the book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Foster helps the reader