Memory And Pattern In Literature Analysis

Memory is the quality that allows the readers to personally connect with a work of art. Relatable works tend to have more of an emotional impact on the reader. Symbols are used to connect the tangible to something intangible. Through this connection, readers will associate the aspects of the thing being symbolized to the symbol. For example, if a character is used to symbolize the devil in a work of art, the audience will associate the aspects of the devil to the character. Patterns allow readers to parallel one work of art to another work of art.

In How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster teaches readers about the most commonly used symbols and their meanings and the similarities between stories.

“The Lion King” is watched by children all over the world. It is a classic Disney movie that many watch for fun and entertainment, but could there be something else to this film? The plot of “The Lion King” is very similar to Shakespeare’s play,” Hamlet”. Some similarities include the lives of Simba and prince Hamlet are changed due to their evil uncles, both fathers die, and both fathers come back as ghosts. Each character in “The Lion King” connects with a character in “Hamlet”. Simba plays as prince Hamlet, Mufasa plays as King Hamlet, Gertrude plays as Sarabi, Scar plays as King Claudius, Nala plays as Ophelia, Rafiki plays as Horatio, hyenas plays as Laertes, and Timon and Pumbaa plays as Rosencrantz and

When contrasting the characters in William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet to the characters in Walt Disney’s film, The Lion King, there are many differences in characterization. Hamlet is a play set in Denmark that tells the story of the tragic murder of King Hamlet and the emotional effects it has on his son, Prince Hamlet. The Prince’s mental instability causes him to go wildly insane over his love for Ophelia, who he will never have. He seeks vengeance on his uncle who is guilty of his father's murder. The Lion King is a film about Simba, a young lion prince who grieves over the untimely death of his father, the King of the Pride Lands. Simba discovers his Uncle Scar was the cause of his father's death. He must now return to Pride Rock in order to save his home and all who live there from the chaos under the ruling of Scar while he finds his place in society. When analyzing the characters Ophelia and Nala, they are dissimilar in their traits of obedience, dependence, and inner strength.

One of the main similarities between The Lion King II and Romeo and Juliet is that both main characters are deeply in love with each other but are doomed to be together due to the feud between both families. In The Lion King II the main characters are Kovu and Kiara, they are Romeo and Juliet in this allusion. They both come from different feuding families, Kiara comes from the family of Pride landers, and Kovu comes from the family of Outlanders. In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet comes from the family of Capulets and Romeo comes from the family of Montagues. In both the movie and the play there are families’ members that represent each other. For example, the leader of the Outlanders is Zira. She is the mate of deceased Scar and the mother of Kovu. She is the Lady Montague of the movie, who has taken over the leadership role from Scar, who would have been Lord Montague. Nuka is Kovu's older brother, who is jealous of Kovu because he was the chosen one. He is Mercutio because his smart mouth, and impulse brought him to his death. Vitani is Kovu's sister. She is like Benvolio in the beginning, but when she grows up and becomes more like her evil mother.

What goes through your mind when you read? Do you read deliberately, looking for certain aspects, or do you read as a blank slate? When reading, professors expect a deliberateness that will help you to uncover meanings that are not readily apparent. Thomas C. Foster in his book “How to Read Literature Like a Professor” expands on this concept. He endeavors to instruct his readers in the way he believes they should read, in order to get the most out of each book. He concedes that, “When lay readers encounter a fictive text, they focus, as they should, on the story and the characters” but to truly read like a professor you must also divert a portion of your attention on

Understanding great works of literature can be fairly difficult without the knowledge of analyzing them. How

How do memory, symbol, and pattern affect the reading of literature? How does the recognition of patterns make it easier to read complicated literature? Discuss a time when your appreciation of a literary work was enhanced by understanding symbol or pattern.

-As readers we come across many details in literature that hole significance, however the common reader usually misses the deeper

As I was reading How to Read Literature Like a Professor, I was thinking about how much I have missed in the books I have read due to not knowing how to look for certain literary devices. Something as simple as not knowing how to read between the lines caused me to miss out on points the author was trying to make. Over the course of reading How to Read Literature Like a Professor, I have learned many ways to analyze literature that I did not know before.

How do memory, symbol, and pattern affect the reading of literature? How does the recognition of patterns make it easier to read complicated literature? Discuss a time when your appreciation of a literary work was enhanced by understanding symbol or pattern.

Although The Lion King and Macbeth seems like two different stories. One is set in the medieval era while the other is set in postmodernity, but both displays the similarities of the character’s strategic battle for power. Scar, known as the villain in the movie, The Lion King, committed selfish acts to fulfill his distorted desires. As Simba was at the edge of the cliff, about to be murdered by Scar, Scar snarled at him, “That [is] the way your father looked before I killed him” (The Lion King). Simba leaped up from the side of the cliff, and pushed Scar to the ground demanding him to confess to his crime of killing the king, his father, Mufasa. This quote proves that Scar’s ambition leads him to do ruthless acts, wanting to kill Simba, who was next in line of the throne. These malevolent plots are what fuels the battle of evil against the good. Scar stated to his three murders, the Hyenas, “We [are] going to kill him. And Simba, too” (The Lion King). In the movie, The Lion King, shows that Scar is resentful of the king, Mufasa, and the power he retains. In this quote, he plans a plot on who he wants to kill with the three hyenas to help him finish the deed, which shows his strong ambitions. Another

Some authors think alike. So alike that they kind of tell the same story but more modern. Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet and Rainbow Rowell's novel have their similarities and their differences. How? Well in both of these stories, they have the same theme.

Introduction: How’d he do that? - Memory, symbol, and pattern greatly affect the reading of literature. Memory allows you to draw similarities from what you are reading to something else you have read before, and this allows you to comprehend the text in a better way. Understanding and noticing the symbolism in literature also affects your reading in literature. it allows the reader to understand what is trying to be conveyed by the author in a deeper and wider spectrum. It allow to reader to see different/deeper meanings that are trying to be conveyed by the author, rather than just reading and comprehending what’s on the surface.

No 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, he explains how to read in depth and how to look at literature in numerous ways, meanwhile showing how he explores literature by making connections that most people go throughout life never looking for or even recognizing. The first book I read following my reading of How to Read Literature Like A Professor was Sara Gruen’s riveting novel Water for Elephants which I entirely enjoyed reading. Gruen’s novel does not elude many of Foster’s ideas presented in How to Read Literature Like A Professor, in fact Gruen’s Water for Elephants is a superior example of how many stories are actually an adaptation off of someone else's story as see in Foster’s chapter five which explains how many authors base their work off the venerable Shakespeare's works. After reading why Foster thinks many writers’ works often reflect Shakespeare, I was lead to recognize that Gruen’s Water for Elephants is actually an echo of one of Shakespeare’s most eminent masterpieces Romeo and Juliet.