Summary Of How To Read Literature Like A Professor

In “How to Read Literature like a Professor” Foster conveys new insight to books and movies. He explains about literature that isn’t just on the surface. He explains how the author chooses the correct season to put the movie in. Foster talks about the true meaning of flight. He also tells of what water means.
The movie The Longest Ride connects with chapter 20. The movie is set at the end of summer about to be the start of summer. An art student, Sophia, is about to graduate from college and move to New York for an art internship. Her sorority sisters get her to go to a Bull Riding competition with them. She meets, Luke, a handsome bull rider. The beginning of their love story starts there. Foster says in chapter 20,” Maybe it’s hard-wired into us that spring has to do with childhood and youth, summer with adulthood and romance and fulfillment and passion, autumn with decline and middle age and tiredness but also harvest, winter with old age and resentment and death (186).”Spring has a significance to the story because Sophia is a youth that is about to step out into the real world when she graduates. Summer also is significant because it is a time of romance and living for teenagers and young adults. They fall in love that summer and
In the movie a teenage boy runs away from home because of his troubles at home. His parents are getting a divorce and they have to move out of their home. Frank runs away and starts to con people with his confidence. The conning starts to increase. He impersonates a pilot. He forges Pan Am payroll checks and steals a great amount of money. The flying is symbolic in the movie. Foster says,” It’s really straightforward: flight is freedom (136).” By being a pilot he is getting freedom from his troubled childhood. He is a new person. He doesn’t have to worry about the problems at home. The freedom isn’t a good thing in this case because he is doing illegal