Seasons In Literature

Chapter twenty of How to Read Literature Like a Professor is utilized to display the importance of season in literature. Foster explains how different authors have used it to suit different needs but in the Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy by Maggie Stiefvater, the importance of season is so blatant that it’s impossible to miss. The premise of the trilogy is that the werewolves that exist within it are unable to become human once again until it is warm enough. But each year, they require the temperature to be higher and higher to be able to change. Eventually, it doesn’t ever become warm enough again, and they are stuck as a wolf forever. The seasons represent a more general term of temperature, and as a way for the wolves to measure both the