Chapter 11 How To Read Literature Like A Professor

Analysis: Compare chapter 11: How to Read Literature Like a Professor-“…More Than It’s Gonna Hurt You: Concerning Violence” to chapter 2 (part 2) of The Fountainhead. At the beginning or chapter two of The Fountainhead, Dominique is thinking about Roark again. She is thinking about his body in ways no one can imagine. Then Dominique destroys her fireplace on purpose just to have Roark come over to her house. But when he does come over, Roark completely ignores Dominique. He leaves and then he comes back, and when he comes back he does something no girl hopes for. Roark rapes Dominique. When this scene took place Dominique, “felt the hatred and his hands; his hands moving over her body, the hands broke granite. She fought in a last convulsion. Then the
Then she lay still” (Rand 217). The violence in this scene is intense. This is the “Character-on-character-violence” that Foster talks about in How to Read Literature Like a Professor. The way Dominique “fought like an animal”(218) proves that she did everything in her ability to get free from Roark. Violence is a symbolic action, it happens for a reason, but to be able to recognize that reason or meaning is hard. The sexual violence that took place in this scene is the type of violence that hurt other characters, such as shooting, stabbing, poisoning and of course rape.

Analysis: Compare chapter 9:How to Read Literature Like a professor-“it’s Greek to me” to part one of The fountainhead. Many of The Fountainhead characters are similar to characters in Greek Mythology. For