Summer Reading Questions-How to Read Like a Professor
Summer Reading Questions
Chapter One: A casual definition of a quester would be an individual that goes on a quest, or mission, in hopes of looking for something. However, in How to Think like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster, we are challenged to look at this term in a very different and mind stimulating way. Foster challenges our minds to look at quests as everyday things. Foster points out 5 aspects to every quest and how we can find these within everyday situations. These include; the quester, a place to go, said reason to go there, challenges and trials, and the real reason to go. The places do not have to be physical places and can be places within our minds and hypothetical places. With every quest we gain new life experience and knowledge not previously known to ourselves. We gain self-knowledge. In Pride and Prejudice, we can see a quest that Elizabeth Bennet goes on. The place she goes is self- acceptance against her family and to be content with her love for Darcy. Elizabeth continuously goes on a self-battle of whether or not she deserves what she has, including; love, life, and happiness. Austen emphasizes the character of Elizabeth self-deserving attitude early in the novel: “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.” (Austen 76)
Chapter Three: The symbol of vampirism is a very selfish one. The traits of vampirism include; selfishness, exploitation, refusal to respect the autonomy of other people, using people to get what we want, placing our desires, particularly ugly ones, above the needs of another. An example of vampirism in 1984 by George Orwell is the character Julia. She is selfish in the fact that she is very independent and concerned for herself. “He fear of the unknown and continued torture in The Ministry of Love building caused her to crack under pressure. She explains to Winston, after the ordeal, that she didn’t give a damn what he suffered because all she cared about was herself.” (Orwell 292) She is
Chapter One: A casual definition of a quester would be an individual that goes on a quest, or mission, in hopes of looking for something. However, in How to Think like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster, we are challenged to look at this term in a very different and mind stimulating way. Foster challenges our minds to look at quests as everyday things. Foster points out 5 aspects to every quest and how we can find these within everyday situations. These include; the quester, a place to go, said reason to go there, challenges and trials, and the real reason to go. The places do not have to be physical places and can be places within our minds and hypothetical places. With every quest we gain new life experience and knowledge not previously known to ourselves. We gain self-knowledge. In Pride and Prejudice, we can see a quest that Elizabeth Bennet goes on. The place she goes is self- acceptance against her family and to be content with her love for Darcy. Elizabeth continuously goes on a self-battle of whether or not she deserves what she has, including; love, life, and happiness. Austen emphasizes the character of Elizabeth self-deserving attitude early in the novel: “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.” (Austen 76)
Chapter Three: The symbol of vampirism is a very selfish one. The traits of vampirism include; selfishness, exploitation, refusal to respect the autonomy of other people, using people to get what we want, placing our desires, particularly ugly ones, above the needs of another. An example of vampirism in 1984 by George Orwell is the character Julia. She is selfish in the fact that she is very independent and concerned for herself. “He fear of the unknown and continued torture in The Ministry of Love building caused her to crack under pressure. She explains to Winston, after the ordeal, that she didn’t give a damn what he suffered because all she cared about was herself.” (Orwell 292) She is