The Bonesetter's Daughter Literary Analysis

Analyzing “How to Read Literature like a Professor” is easy, but on the other hand, to analyze “The Bonesetter’s Daughter” is a consuming task. The difficulty doesn’t lie in the grammar, or the structure, but by not being sucked into the story, and instead employing the skills learned in Foster’s book. Amy Tan’s novel: The Bonesetter’s Daughter, seems to be a novel written for entertainment purposes, there seems to be no author’s intent; or use of literary devices that would contextualize a deeper meaning that is found in fiction, mythology, and folklore. Simple as that, although it may not seem like it, through the employment of the “guidelines” highlighted by Foster, the Bonesetter’s Daughter employs the literary devices that are masked by the reader’s awareness and by reaching beyond just the contextualization, it breaks the barriers of literature.
If you do take away anything from Foster’s novel, let it be that a story always can connect to folklore, fairytales, or Greek and Biblical mythology. Foster states that irony trumps
Is it to write a memoir of her family history, or is it to relay a message, or maybe it’s just mere entertainment that sells. Regardless of the author’s intent it resonates on different levels for the reader. Without employing the guidelines learned in “How to Read Literature like a Professor”, a reader would merely read it as entertainment, unaware of the literary devices, unaware of the importance of its fluidity, instead believing that the novel follows a rigid rule of a fiction book that has one message, to tell the story of Amy Tan’s family. A reader that hasn’t gained the wisdom through reading Fosters novel, the wisdom of a professor, would be highly unlikely to notice and question the irony of the immortal heart, and would fear breaking the rules of literature and instead jumping into the risky world of literary assumptions and breaking barriers of genres and creating unlikely