How to Read Literature Like A Professor #4

Here’s my second blog that I wrote on paper while I was on vacation:

Man! I never realized how much of a Christian society we are living in. I knew it was a popular religion in America but I never realized how much is subtly put into the books we read. I also was interested in how they interpreted all of the seasons and talked about how much a season or the geography of a person can tell. AH! When I was reading about the scars and imperfections, I couldn’t stop reading! I really like the point made that imperfections tell you more than just how their skin looks, but also how they mirror psychological or emotional flaws as well.

How to Read Literature Like A Professor #3

I was on vacation for a while and had no internet access but I brought my book along with me and wrote down my blogs on paper so that I could type them when I got home.

As I continued reading, I found myself agreeing more and more with the points that Foster was making. He brought up a pont that as readers we look for strangeness but we also look for familiarity to make sense of it. Also I never would have thought so deep into the weather the story takes place in. Yeah, I would keep a mental note in that it was a rainy night, but I never looked at a walk in the rain as a cleansing scene. The weather chapter is definately the most interesting to me, and my favorite chapter so far.

How to Read Literature Like A Professor #2

Right after I finished writing my first blog I picked up the book and continued to read. Chapter 4 was pretty funny to me because pretty much the whole thing was a review. Ms.Pierce had taught us all abous sonnets during the year and this repeated everything I knew about them. I never noticed that a sonnet forms a square though. I learned something new! I totally agree with Foster when he says that "there's only one story" because stories and characters all branch off from others. The tree never stops growing, but they are all connected to the same roots.

How to Read Literature Like A Professor #1

So, I read chapters 1-3 of the book and right away it starts to open your eyes. Never would I have thought into the fact that a simple trip to a store could be a quest. When I thought of the word "quest" things such as great noble journeys came to mind but then again, that was me being closed minded. Chapter 2 talks about eating together and communion. When I finished the chapter it made me realize more about real life. The fact that we will share communion with the people we enjoy being with and care about are things that we experience in our bigger communion of life. They all lead up the one things all humans have in common: death. Man, this book gets me thinking!