Chapter 7: Why Do Writers Allude To The Bible?
Chapter 7: Why do writers allude to the Bible? I believe that author writers choose to allude to the Bible for easy reference that anyone could recognize. Many people use examples of character of stories to define a point like “he overcame like David over Goliath” or “That was as miraculous as Jesus walking on water” so others pickup on that recognize when used in books. By using that they found a way to sum up an idea of being miraculous, overcoming, or time of greatness by using famous sequences of the Bible. While others use symbol of the Bible to show the purpose for what they are symbolizing, an example in our book Foster tells of another book using the Four Horsemen. The Four Horsemen are the sign, according to the Bible, of Judgment Day but the book that is used as the example they are a group of men after the protagonist to kill her. The author still used a reference from Bible people may or may not have picked up on making it easy to understand their point.
Chapter 2: Choose a meal scene from any literature work or film and apply the ideas of Chapter 2. Whenever I see meal scenes in movies a lot of drama ensues but then again my mother watches a lot romantic dramas though definitely with this genre tons of drama ensues after meals because a …show more content…
communion of some sort. The meal scene that I remember clearly is from a Tyler Perry movie in which when it ended someone went to the hospital. Let me first set the stage, The movie was set currently at winter retreat with 4 or 5 couples and two singles one a woman and the other a man staying in a lodge. One of the husbands was obviously cheating on his wife with the single woman and everyone knew about it except the wife. She had come late because the cheating husband’s plans of making them come at different times so he can have fun with his mistress. But that wasn’t the only problem there were other underlying problems of mistrust and things done in the dark in every couples marriage. Eventually all of what I mentioned comes to a head in their “communion” at large dinner on the last night of the retreat. They start to eat and just like every “airing-of-dirty-laundry” session someone spoke the key phrase to open the flood light on the problems of each couples marriage. At the end of the session, the big problem of the cheating husband finally was told to the unknowing wife and in her fit of rage smacks him with a wine bottle thus sending him to the Hospital. All these events were only the beginning of the movie and the drama increases tenfold after they leave the retreat. When the author started to talk communion and sharing of food brings out thoughts of people I thought of this movie. Because simply sharing a meal together can set in motion a whole of good and bad things and the authors/writers love that.
Chapter 1: Apply the five aspects of a QUEST to any literary work or Film.
I choose Stars Wars Episode IV: A New Hope for my quest. The quester: The hero is Luke Skywalker a farmer who wants something more and finds droids with plans of the Death Star. The place to go: Luke goes to find the Rebellion to give the plans. The stated reason to go: To destroy the death star and give the rebels a chance of victory. Challenges and trials: the Empire’s pursuit and hindrance of the Death star plans to be given to the rebels. The real reason to go: to start Luke on the path of becoming a Jedi.
Chapter 4: Find a sonnet online and discuss how the structure adds to the meaning. Include the Sonnet in your
response.
Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy:
Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,
Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering;
Resembling sire and child and happy mother,
Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing:
Whose speechless song being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee: 'Thou single wilt prove none.'
By over whelming pressure, I chose a Shakespeare sonnet because I could find another sonnet that I sure can identify the structure. I noticed that the first four lines are two questions I think asking why you are in a bad mood in good times. While the next two sentences are to attack the reason you are a bad mood. Sorry I might got the wrong idea from sonnet but I believe that the structure shows that he doesn’t understand why the person or people he is in the state.
Chapter 2: Choose a meal scene from any literature work or film and apply the ideas of Chapter 2. Whenever I see meal scenes in movies a lot of drama ensues but then again my mother watches a lot romantic dramas though definitely with this genre tons of drama ensues after meals because a …show more content…
communion of some sort. The meal scene that I remember clearly is from a Tyler Perry movie in which when it ended someone went to the hospital. Let me first set the stage, The movie was set currently at winter retreat with 4 or 5 couples and two singles one a woman and the other a man staying in a lodge. One of the husbands was obviously cheating on his wife with the single woman and everyone knew about it except the wife. She had come late because the cheating husband’s plans of making them come at different times so he can have fun with his mistress. But that wasn’t the only problem there were other underlying problems of mistrust and things done in the dark in every couples marriage. Eventually all of what I mentioned comes to a head in their “communion” at large dinner on the last night of the retreat. They start to eat and just like every “airing-of-dirty-laundry” session someone spoke the key phrase to open the flood light on the problems of each couples marriage. At the end of the session, the big problem of the cheating husband finally was told to the unknowing wife and in her fit of rage smacks him with a wine bottle thus sending him to the Hospital. All these events were only the beginning of the movie and the drama increases tenfold after they leave the retreat. When the author started to talk communion and sharing of food brings out thoughts of people I thought of this movie. Because simply sharing a meal together can set in motion a whole of good and bad things and the authors/writers love that.
Chapter 1: Apply the five aspects of a QUEST to any literary work or Film.
I choose Stars Wars Episode IV: A New Hope for my quest. The quester: The hero is Luke Skywalker a farmer who wants something more and finds droids with plans of the Death Star. The place to go: Luke goes to find the Rebellion to give the plans. The stated reason to go: To destroy the death star and give the rebels a chance of victory. Challenges and trials: the Empire’s pursuit and hindrance of the Death star plans to be given to the rebels. The real reason to go: to start Luke on the path of becoming a Jedi.
Chapter 4: Find a sonnet online and discuss how the structure adds to the meaning. Include the Sonnet in your
response.
Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy:
Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,
Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering;
Resembling sire and child and happy mother,
Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing:
Whose speechless song being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee: 'Thou single wilt prove none.'
By over whelming pressure, I chose a Shakespeare sonnet because I could find another sonnet that I sure can identify the structure. I noticed that the first four lines are two questions I think asking why you are in a bad mood in good times. While the next two sentences are to attack the reason you are a bad mood. Sorry I might got the wrong idea from sonnet but I believe that the structure shows that he doesn’t understand why the person or people he is in the state.