Summary Of How To Read Literature Like A Professor By Thomas Foster
This chapter from How to Read Literature Like a Professor starts off as if Thomas Foster, the author, is having a conversation with the reader like they are in the same room. When one looks at the title, he preconceives a notion that it will be a formal, more academic book when what he truly finds is a casual writing style that makes the reader feel more at ease.
Foster begins to introduce a conditional situation about a fictional character named Kip who is described as run of the mill; The story continues to unfold as Kip goes on an errand for his mother which is almost a “quest,” as Foster puts it. This quest is then compared to the Hero’s Journey, which was interesting in and of itself, because Foster created this hypothetical, seemingly-normal
Foster begins to introduce a conditional situation about a fictional character named Kip who is described as run of the mill; The story continues to unfold as Kip goes on an errand for his mother which is almost a “quest,” as Foster puts it. This quest is then compared to the Hero’s Journey, which was interesting in and of itself, because Foster created this hypothetical, seemingly-normal