Connection to another source and explanation
The five most important requirements of a quest are a quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges and trials, and a real reason to go there also known as self knowledge.
13 Reasons Why: Clay Jensen gets a set of tapes supposedly from Hannah Baker because he is one of the reasons why she killed herself. He is determined to find out why he’s on the tapes since he was always nice to her
Eating a meal with someone else means you are forming a communion. However not all communions have a positive result, it depends on the situation and people.
The Lightning Thief: When Percy first has dinner at Camp Halfblood, he isn’t very sure where to sit or who to sit with. But then he …show more content…
The way he holds and plays his guitar represents the way he wants to hold and touch Eliza. The guitar is her body and the strings on the guitar are all the parts of her that Paul wants to explore.
When authors are writing about sex, they are never actually talking about the act itself. The author is referring to something else other than sex.
Everything Everything: when Madeline and Olly have sex, it represents Madeline finally growing up and making life changing decisions for herself.
The author decides to talk about the significance of water. If a character goes in water and comes out alive then they have been reborn. However if they don’t come out alive, then the only significance is death.
God Shaped-Hole: Jacob is Obsessed with swimming in the ocean at night and when he and Trixie first go to the beach together, he resurfaces and is ready to begin a life with Trixie. He is leaving behind the pain from his old life and is ready to enjoy the pleasures of being with Trixie.
Geography matters because it can show us the moods of all characters in the book.
The Long Walk: All one hundred of the boys are walking on an empty road. They are lonely in their normal lives and decide to participate in the walk because they think it’ll give their lives …show more content…
Thomas C. Foster talks about the symbolic meaning of blindness. He says that in literature, the person who is blind isn't literally blind. They have sight but they are self centered and selfish.
13 Reasons Why: Everyone is blind to Hannah’s suicidal tendencies. They are too worried about what others will think of them and their actions/behaviors/thoughts/opinions.
Having heart disease also means that your feeling down. Authors specifically choose diseases that affect the characters physical appearance because it has a deeper effect on readers. In this case, the persons can be lonely and antisocial.
The Fault in our Stars: Gus is also suffering from cancer but his appearance throughout the whole book makes it seem as though he’ll be okay, while Hazel is the sick and weak one throughout the whole book. However Gus is the one to bite the bullet in the end. His healthy looks are representative of the strength and happiness Hazel needed to be able to live her life bravely and happily.
It is important to for readers to see a situation from someone else's point of