Summary Of Every Trip Is A Quest
Jonathan Lozano
English 2 HP
23 August 2014
English II Honors Summer Reading 2014
Chapter 1: Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It’s Not)
Main Ideas/Questions
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A quest consists of five things.
Things to consider.
Is every trip really a quest?
a) A quester.
b) A specific destination.
c) A purpose to go there.
d) Challenges and trials that will be faced on the path.
e) A real reason for the quester to go there.
Item (a) is simply the person who goes on the quest.
Items (b) and (c) the protagonist who does not need to look heroic is told to go somewhere and do something.
The stated reason for going to the destination is never the real reason for going.
The main reason for any quest is self-knowledge.
Summary
A quest has five component …show more content…
Elaborate settings.
Metaphorical meaning of meal and communion.
Whenever people eat or drink together, it’s communion.
a) The breaking of bread is an act of sharing and peace.
b) If it is a private sensual act it is therefore, not always holy.
c) When two people take in a substance it is a personal and shared experience.
d) Although the breaking of break is good it can also go very badly, which indicates how characters are getting along.
e) The setting of a meal inhibits the reality and tension of a meal and it helps characters overcome internal obstacles.
Often intricate settings make readers feel part of the situation, makes the readers empathize with characters.
Communion is often associated with life and mortality and has a universal truth that we all live and we all die.
Summary
No matter the circumstances when people are eating together it is considered communion. Communion can mean a diversity of things in context to the literature. The precisely intertwined settings help with empathizing with characters. Communion and meal is always associated with life and death.
Chapter 3: Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires
Main Ideas/Questions
Details
Little known …show more content…
Main Ideas/Questions
Details
Be aware.
There is no such thing as “Original”.
Inspect this aspect of literature.
One story.
Intertextuality.
Look out for patterns, archetypes, and recurrences.
There is no such thing as an original piece of literature because everything contains an element from another place.
It’s not as if the writer meant to copy the ideas, but merely subconsciously embedded the ideas into the writing from our societies dialogue.
All of writing builds on what has come before.
Authors write upon the pre existing assumption about the reader’s knowledge of history, culture, and literature; expecting the reader to subconsciously make connections.
Interestingly enough it is important to realize that all of literature starts from one story.
Is the ongoing interaction between poems, stories, and literary works.
Summary
Look for archetypes, patterns, literary devices, and common symbols to help perceive the hidden similarities and interplay between different works.
Chapter 6: When in Doubt, It’s from Shakespeare…
Main Ideas/Questions
Details
Writers.
Intertextuality.
Why Shakespeare?
Reading.
Shakespeare.
Every writer in the smallest or biggest way alters Shakespeare in some
English 2 HP
23 August 2014
English II Honors Summer Reading 2014
Chapter 1: Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It’s Not)
Main Ideas/Questions
Details
A quest consists of five things.
Things to consider.
Is every trip really a quest?
a) A quester.
b) A specific destination.
c) A purpose to go there.
d) Challenges and trials that will be faced on the path.
e) A real reason for the quester to go there.
Item (a) is simply the person who goes on the quest.
Items (b) and (c) the protagonist who does not need to look heroic is told to go somewhere and do something.
The stated reason for going to the destination is never the real reason for going.
The main reason for any quest is self-knowledge.
Summary
A quest has five component …show more content…
Elaborate settings.
Metaphorical meaning of meal and communion.
Whenever people eat or drink together, it’s communion.
a) The breaking of bread is an act of sharing and peace.
b) If it is a private sensual act it is therefore, not always holy.
c) When two people take in a substance it is a personal and shared experience.
d) Although the breaking of break is good it can also go very badly, which indicates how characters are getting along.
e) The setting of a meal inhibits the reality and tension of a meal and it helps characters overcome internal obstacles.
Often intricate settings make readers feel part of the situation, makes the readers empathize with characters.
Communion is often associated with life and mortality and has a universal truth that we all live and we all die.
Summary
No matter the circumstances when people are eating together it is considered communion. Communion can mean a diversity of things in context to the literature. The precisely intertwined settings help with empathizing with characters. Communion and meal is always associated with life and death.
Chapter 3: Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires
Main Ideas/Questions
Details
Little known …show more content…
Main Ideas/Questions
Details
Be aware.
There is no such thing as “Original”.
Inspect this aspect of literature.
One story.
Intertextuality.
Look out for patterns, archetypes, and recurrences.
There is no such thing as an original piece of literature because everything contains an element from another place.
It’s not as if the writer meant to copy the ideas, but merely subconsciously embedded the ideas into the writing from our societies dialogue.
All of writing builds on what has come before.
Authors write upon the pre existing assumption about the reader’s knowledge of history, culture, and literature; expecting the reader to subconsciously make connections.
Interestingly enough it is important to realize that all of literature starts from one story.
Is the ongoing interaction between poems, stories, and literary works.
Summary
Look for archetypes, patterns, literary devices, and common symbols to help perceive the hidden similarities and interplay between different works.
Chapter 6: When in Doubt, It’s from Shakespeare…
Main Ideas/Questions
Details
Writers.
Intertextuality.
Why Shakespeare?
Reading.
Shakespeare.
Every writer in the smallest or biggest way alters Shakespeare in some