How To Read Literature Like A Professor Essay

Do you want to read a book and fully understand the deeper meaning of the book? If you do, the book How to Read Literature Like a Literature Professor by Thomas C. Foster is the ideal book to learn the deeper meaning of events, how to decode symbolism and how to read novels more effectively. In addition this book will give you various examples on how to spot out certain things that change the actual meaning of the story.
The book How to Read Literature like a Professor helps one get a better understanding of the context of a novel contains. Before reading the book How to Read Literature like an English Professor by Thomas C. Foster, I would have never understood what the events happening actually meant. For example, in the book Jane Eyre
when she leaves Thornfield to Morton and she’s out in the rain for a night and almost died. This has a deeper meaning that just here going into poverty this event signifies the re-birth and baptisms of Jane Eyre. Why it symbolizes rebirth? It symbolizes rebirth because when one is baptized with holy water it means the rebirth of ones self. Clearly after that event happens we see Jane become a new person with a new life and then she becomes rich. Another example, in the book Beowulf when Beowulf goes to avenge what Grendels mother did and he’s underwater fighting against her and he’s in a tough spot because his sword didn’t work and then he see’s a sword and grabs it to kill Grendels mother and to cut up Grendel. This event signifies Beowulf new life his baptism or rebirth because after that he enters a new phase of his life. All in all, this book allowed me to get a better interpretation of events and to fully comprehend what the author is trying to show.
Have you ever thought of what an author is trying to show by an event, setting, or character? Well by reading the book How to Read Literature like a English Professor it really helps one un-code what the author is trying to symbolize and get the actual meaning of the story. For example, in the book Beowulf when Beowulf was accompanied by twelve warriors trying to fight against the dragon in his final battle. In comparison, to God who also had twelve men or disciples and then got betrayed just exactly as how Beowulf was betrayed by Wiglaf. By just reading Beowulf all alone without any previous knowledge of symbolism in literature or without reading Thomas C Fosters book one might miss out on a lot. The meaning of the event in which Beowulf gets betrayed by his men is the comparison of how Beowulf and God are alike by being Christ figures. All in all, this book allowed me to have a deeper understanding of the context of novels and to look at the event from different points of view.
How to Read English like a Literature Professor is the guide to reading effectively.
First of all, his book includes various examples of symbolism, poems, biblical, weather events, quest, political, and many more examples that change the meaning of the story. Without me reading this book I would have never stopped to think what’s the quest of the story, what does this event mean, is there a biblical reference and many more questions. This book has now taught me to look out for certain things to help me effectively read a book better than I did before reading How to Read Literature like a Literature. After reading this book and moving on to another novel allowed me to see the double meaning of the text. In where as if I hadn’t read the book by Thomas C. Foster I wouldn’t have stopped to think and take much consideration to the story. Additionally, this book made it clear to me that there is only one story and one story only. How could that be? Sounds unbelievable right but it right. The same story is repeated but with a new setting, different character names, different conflicts but still the same meaning and maybe the same ending. If it weren’t for this great novel I would have missed out on all the interesting parts of the story and there meaning. All in all, this book allowed me to gain so much knowledge on how to effectively read a
book.
Learning how to understand the deeper meaning books have, how to decode symbolism, and how to effectively read books is what you’ll gain by reading How to Read like a Literature Professor. Thomas C. Foster goal is to show the readers how to be more analytical about the text. Thomas C. Foster uses examples of other novels and analyzes them and lets us things we wouldn’t have seen without his help. Thomas C. Foster’s book is very helpful book I would say to help anyone be a better reader.