Summary Of How D He Do That By Thomas Foster

In the introduction of How to Read Literature Like a Professor, titled “How’d He Do That?” by Thomas C. Foster, Foster starts off with a reference to the play A Raisin in the Sun. He is talking about how stories have continued to recreate characters that act as “devils” in many different ways (xii). A man has to “buy out a[n] [African American] family’s claim on the house” that they just bought in a neighborhood of all white residents (xi). He acts as the bad guy in this situation and the author compares this to instances where people literally “sell their soul [to the devil]” (xii). Foster goes on introducing how literature has a certain format to fit. This format includes “Memory, Symbol, Pattern” (xv). With memory, readers are always thinking