Analyzing “How to Read Literature like a Professor” is easy, but on the other hand, to analyze “The Bonesetter’s Daughter” is a consuming task. The difficulty doesn’t lie in the grammar, or the structure, but by not being sucked into the story, and instead employing the skills learned in Foster’s book. Amy Tan’s novel: The Bonesetter’s Daughter, seems to be a novel written for entertainment purposes, there seems to be no author’s intent; or use of literary devices that would contextualize a deeper meaning that is found in fiction, mythology, and folklore. Simple as that, although it may not seem like it, through the employment of the “guidelines” highlighted by Foster, the Bonesetter’s Daughter employs the literary devices that are masked by the reader’s awareness and by reaching beyond just the contextualization, it breaks the barriers of literature.…