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    How To Read Literature Like A Professor Introduction: Memory‚ symbol‚ and pattern all affect literature in different ways. When reading literature‚ it’s a wonderful asset to have a good memory and use that whenever you can. If you remember something you read from a novel two months ago and then apply that knowledge to an essay‚ your writing style and essay will improve greatly with such great examples. Symbol affects the way you read literature because when you recognize something symbolic

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    1. Memory‚ symbol and pattern affect the reading of literature by separating the professional reader from the rest of the crowd. Memory of what happened allows you to enjoy later scenes of a book of a movie‚ yet this does not necessarily improve the experience of popular entertainment. When reading you have to assume everything is a symbol until proven otherwise. Its good to think of things as existing as themselves while simultaneously also representing something else. Patterns are everywhere. While

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    In the interlude and the eleventh chapter of Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor‚ Foster analyzes the different effects violence has in literature. Firstly‚ Foster distinguishes that there are two different types of violence in literature. The first form of violence is when a specific injury is brought upon a character by themselves or another character through “shootings‚ stabbings‚ garrotings‚ drownings‚ poisonings‚ bludgeonings‚ bombings” and other harmful means (96). Contrasting

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    The book that I read for my summer reading was How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas Foster and I personally loved it. I really liked the book for many reasons and I think it may have even have changed my thoughts about reading literature into depth. IN addition to that the style of writing was more relatable to a student. Which are all reasons for my love of the book. I really enjoyed the book for many reasons beginning with the topic itself; I love reading literature especially classics

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    How to Read Literature Like a Professor Essay  By: Naomi Brooks    Introduction        How’d He Do That?  Professors use memorization when reading a new book because they are always  looking for correspondences between new and old books. Everything is a symbol until proven  wrong‚ since symbolism is used when they are reading‚ thinking‚ and asking questions such  as: is this an analogy‚ metaphor‚ or what might it signify? With time professors remember  significant events‚ and patterns in novels 

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    How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster has shown me how to reach true understanding in my future reading of literature and has helped me to reach a new depth in works of literature I have already analyzed. Swimming‚ seasons‚ weather and diseases have all taken on more than simply a set scene. Abuse of power over youth or the uneducated is more noticeable. The use of irony is more noticeable. This book has armed me with the ability to recognize political meaning within literary

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    Do you want to read a book and fully understand the deeper meaning of the book? If you do‚ the book How to Read Literature Like a Literature Professor by Thomas C. Foster is the ideal book to learn the deeper meaning of events‚ how to decode symbolism and how to read novels more effectively. In addition this book will give you various examples on how to spot out certain things that change the actual meaning of the story. The book How to Read Literature like a Professor helps one get a better understanding

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    The book How to Read Literature Like a Professor written by Thomas C. Foster covers a variety of topics from the hidden symbolism in a novel to hidden allusions made to famous pieces of literature such as the Bible or works by Shakespeare. These tips and guidelines help the audience to better connect with literature‚ and to really feel involved with a novel. The main character of the novel Hazel desperately wants to go to Amsterdam‚ the location where her favorite author lives. Her love interest

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    insights that I learned from How to Read Literature Like a Professor are to look at the character’s internal reasons for completing a task‚ note the authors word choice in figurative language‚ and look for a deeper meaning tied to the setting or an image that the author is creating. The first insight was given in chapter one of How to Read Literature Like a Professor; “The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge” (3). This piece of information was very useful as I read the section of “Winter in

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    • “Every trip is a quest.” In the book How to Read Literature like a Professor it states in every novel “every trip is a quest” and consists of so many things such as a quester‚ a place to go‚ a stated reason to go there‚ challenges and trails en route‚ and a real reason to go there. In the book The Fault in Our Stars there is a scene that goes perfectly with this‚ when Augustus takes Hazel to meet her beloved author Van Houten. In the book they have a quester which is Hazel. They have a place to

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