Chapter 22: He’s Blind for a Reason‚ You Know In Thomas C. Foster’s‚ How to Read Literature Like a Professor‚ Foster talks about blindness not only as a burden‚ but as a gift. He tries to convey to the audience that blindness in stories goes beyond physical meaning. He also talks about how to catch important details early in a story or movie. The three main points Foster asserts in this chapter are sacrifice‚ commonly missed word usage‚ and if you want something known‚ make it known early. One
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Writing Not certain sometimes how artistic are my endeavors‚ but the desire is there to create something that will resonate with others and be memorable. When the world is full of terror and strife and the soldiers of Satan are busy plowing through carefree crowds‚ one needs to escape to a different kind of world. Makes one remember how important artists‚ musicians‚ and writers are. Happy Birthday Gustav Klimt Twitter was full
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was the first “young-adult” book I’d ever read‚ and it transported me to a new and thrilling world; one with winged children‚ bloodthirsty wolf-hybrids‚ and action scenes upon action scenes. It was the first time of many that I would completely
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In the twelfth chapter of Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor‚ Foster analyzes symbols‚ and the great influences they have in literature. To begin the chapter‚ Foster compares and explains the differences between symbols and allegories. Symbolism is a broad category‚ and allegories fit under it’s immense hierarchy. Furthermore‚ symbols “involve a range of possible means and interpretations”‚ while allegories have single and specific answers (105). Foster continues by stating
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How To Read Literature Like A Professor by Thomas C. Foster presents various ideas and methods that are applied in literature in a form of a guide. Many Ideas presented in the book can be found in other books. For example‚ The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros uses concepts such as sex‚ geography‚ and symbolism to focus/describe other topics. In The House On Mango Street‚ the main character‚ Esperanza‚ describes the hairs of her family members. The way she describes her family member’s hairs
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Journal 1 Hearing that I had to read The Taming of the Shew‚ I was not enthusiastic at all. I read the play previously in my eighth grade literature class‚ years ago‚ and I have not been a Shakespeare fan since then. Also‚ if I had the power to ban Shakespeare from any educational curriculum‚ then I probably would. I believe that Shakespeare belongs in a History class or a class just on Shakespeare‚ for its dated‚ old‚ and not quite fit for many modern English learners like myself. However‚ since
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Blake Allen How to Read Literature like a Professor Foster Allen Introduction memory symbol pattern These basic examples of literary analysis can be found in most literature from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to Paper town. Every Trip is a Quest “a quester‚ a place to go‚ a stated reason‚ challenges and trials en route‚ and a real reason” real reason is always self-knowledge In Romeo and Juliet‚ Romeo goes to the Capulet party because his friends dragged him along but the real reason was so
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Tim O’Brian and Thomas C. Foster are both fantastic authors. They both have written fantastic titles‚ The Thing They Carried ( By Tim) and How To Read Literature Like A Professor (by Thomas). Even though they were published in different years and different parts of the world‚ they still are very similar. One is about war and the other one on literature‚ but when examined you can clearly see religious influences in their writing. Oddly enough‚ they are influenced by many of the same ideas. In the
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community owns it’s own type of myth belief system. Myths can be in different forms in literature‚ paintings‚ and music. All of these forms tell a story‚ even though it is difficult to notice the story it is trying to tell. The literature form of myths is used by modern writers because the situations between the myths and the modern literature writing is very much alike. These comparisons are parallels‚ but how the myths are used and written in the modern world are ironized. A lot of the important
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It has been a long time since I learned to read and write. I grew up in a small town middle of nowhere in Brazil‚ and I lived in a coffee farm until I was 12 years old. My parents were very simple and uneducated‚ who lived life to work. I started school at 1st grade level (no kindergarten that time) when I was 6 years old. I don’t remember if I knew any reading or numbers‚ I think I didn’t know anything about reading and writing. I learned all that in the school. I remember that I learned the alphabet
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