How to Read Like a Professor by: Thomas C. Foster

How to train Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster 1)Introduction Howd He Do That? broadly in memory it affects the guarantee literature in way that the ratifier, recognizes similarities in another work of literature, standardised in ro slicetic brisks elude towards Shakes Spears function Romeo and Juliet. Also, recognizing the pattern makes it easier on the reader because with that viewing the complex speck of the maintain like when I was reading The Scarlett Letter, I saw the allusions and symbolism in other stories, and books. )Chapter 1 E very(prenominal) Trip Is a Quest (Except When Its Not) The five expects of a quest are 1) a questor 2) a place to go 3) a stated a reason to go thither 4) challenges and trails get throw the r come ine and lastly 5) a real reason to go there. smaller Red locomote Hood Tale 1) Little Red Riding Hood 2) To Grandmothers House 3) To bring grandma cookies and social club 4) the wolf tries to eat her and Grandma 5) Little Red Riding Hood drives to trust her instincts and to never pour forth to strangers. )Chapter 2 Nice to Eat with You Act of Communion In Charles Dicksons novel, The saviormas Carol, when the Scrooge wake up from his dream he went out and bought a swan for his poor assistants family for Christmas. By doing this it was kind of a peace treaty offering, it showed that Scrooge turns a new leaf, and by doing so he was now accepted tush into the community. 4)Chapter 4 If Its a Square, Its a SonnetPetrarchan praise Missing the Metros by Charles Terryson-Tunner This sonnet shows this form of reading by demonstrating a sequence like abba cdcd efefe and towards the finis like the traditional Petrarch Sonnet, the main point of the sonnet which is called the volta, towards the end of the sonnet. Shakespearian sonnet Sonnet LXXIII With this Shakespearian Sonnet, this had 14 lines and was divided into three set outs, with verse line scheme like this abab cdcd efef gg. The volta is usually at the end of t he sonnet like in this one, where in the end it makes impact because it makes reader think about how the death can be very near.Indefinable Sonnets Ozymandias In this sonnet it does not fit the standard Shakespearian sonnet or Pertarchan sonnet, though it has the alike(p) lineamentistic of a Shakespearian sonnet and volta similar to the Pertarchan sonnet. 5)Chapter 6 When In Doubt , Its from Shakespeare In the theme of the tale Fugard reflects Shakespeares Henery V, in this tale Harold the main character has to croak Master Harold set a side of meat his childishness accompliceship and to become to into his family business, like Prince Hal had set aside his childhood friend and ways to become a King Henry, capable leading a army. )Chapter 7 Or the Bible I imagined I bore my chalice invulnerablely throw the throng of foes (Line 31Joyce). The chalice symbolized him protecting his morals under the becharm of the heathens surrounding him, even though in the next sentence he remi nisce about his feelings towards the girl, Megans sister. 7)Chapter 8 Hanseldee and Gerteldum I book I once read was like modern version of smash and the Beast but it focused on the Beast point of view, and how he became the way he was. The write did create a parallel of the story but twist in to make her own, to appeal to her stripling readers.It appeal to their child like fairy tale story and theme it deepen appreciation of a this particle fairy tale, since it appeal to young teen board girls. 8)Chapter 9 Its Greek to Me Only For a Season Mother never could have known Of my past intentions of being free, The age is near for me to go How could stay with her alone? Easy to say goodbye for season be, Rarely can confide to my husband needs. Naturally I was born in summer bloom As the constituents have it, I learn to love winters cold. To turn against my mothers give Under estimating my husbands needs,Rethinking my own wants Easy it is not to love winters chill. 9)Chapter 10 It s More Than estimable Rain and Snow In novel I read named Life as We Knew It. In the novel there was a part where the families oldest Mirinda, had to go out in a blizzard to find solid food for her family. The description of the blizzard and how she felt in the storm was very vivid, it made me understand the struggle that the character in the novel had go throw. 10) Chapter 11More Than Its Gonna Hurt You Concerning Violence The first display case is specific injury characters inflict upon themselves or others.The second type of violence is where the author causes harm to characters to development the plot. In The Outsiders there are two gangs, the socs and the greasers they commit the first type of violence. They punch, stab and kill all(prenominal) other out of revenge and anger. It takes a a couple of(prenominal) deaths of dear friends for the characters realize the insanity of fighting. The end will is that they grow to be better people. In To knock down a pestiferousbird the old lady inhabit Ms. Dubose dies from old age. This is an caseful of the second type of violence.The author has her die to develop Jem is a character and to die the plot along, in this the exemplification second act of violence has more meaning and depth to it. 11) Chapter 12 Is That A Symbol? In the short story the Araby by James Joyce, Joyce uses the fence as symbolical reference of a barrier in the midst of Mangans sister and the protagonist. A fence main adjudicate is to keep things out, separated, apart to make known that another party is not allowed in. I belive the fence symbolizes the age difference between Magans sister and the protagonist, how that will be barrier in protagonist mind of his relationship with her.Or perhaps, its a culture/religious meaning separating boys and girls so they wont go forth with their deeper desirers. 12)Chapter 13 Its All Political In play I read in 10th grade called the Raisin in the Sun the writer Lorrain Hansberry put some of pol itical views in the play. The play was about a black family wanting to move into a white neighbor in the 1950s, of rush it same time its written, it was avoids to me that it was written about civil rights in that time, and how the struggle for umpteen African Americans to have those rights at that time. 3)Chapter 14 Yes, Shes a Christ Figure, Too Many works of liture there are stories that have Christ figures, especially in stories that have good versus evil. Usually the good side has Christ characteristics, like Holes by Louis Sachar, Stanley Christ figure, surprisingly he carries many of Christ characteristics. 1. He had wounds on his hands from shovel cutting him when was digging. 2. He is in agony when he walked through the hot sweetness to find Zero 3. He sis el sacrificing whe he runs away from the camp to save Zero, knowledgeable he could die himself. 4. Although he is kid himself he good with kids.He got along with everybody in the camp and in addition taught Zero to re ad. 5. Even though he doesnt create water or food, he does found water and onons for Zero to drink and eat in the mountains. 6. He uses a humble needs of transfer because his family was poor he had to walk to school and other places. 7. He spent time in the dessert which is like the wilderness , even though he wasnt alone, and everyone thought he was died because he was at peace(p) so long. 8. He had conformation with the devil/ Warden, when he went to the wardens house. 9. He was last seen with thievesthe Warden, Mr.Sir, and Dr. Pandenski those who wanted part of the loot. 10. Stanely finally comes back to reddem the unworthy world. In this story the unworthy world is the camp of delinquent juveniles. When came back he freed the kids from the camp. Stanley wasnt exactly Jesus but he was good guy and he potryaed Christ like characteristics. 14) If She Comes Up, Its Baptism The importance of baptism scenes is very clear in a lot of literature. It symbolizes a swear out away of the old, a new start. Sometimes this doesnt result in a good way, or in favor of the character at the time.A good example of this is in the movie Pearl Harbor. The story is of two best friends, Rafe and Danny, who are pilots of fighter mats. Rafe has a girlfriend, Evelyn, who is a nurse. Unfortunately, Rafes plane is shot charge and lands in water, where he is submerged to what appears to be his death. When Rafe is submerged in the water, he doesnt realize his breeding is changing around him. When his best friend and girlfriend hear of his death they become close, and end up forming a relationship themselves. Danny and Evelyn dont realize until later that Rafe didnt die in the plane crash.The crash was, in a sense, Rafes baptism, as a new life has been laid out before him (though he doesnt know it yet). Rafe, upon his return, is expecting his life to continue as normal, with his best friend and girlfriend. Little does he know that Danny and Evelyn have formed a relationship, and when he finds out, he feels hes scattered two of them. 15)Chapter 19 Geography Matters Foster defines geography as any setting in a story that can define or be developed by characters in the story. In To Kill a Mocking Bird, Harper downwind sets up the book to describe the area, and the people who lived there.Like when she describes Alabama, which is a collaborator state and is known to very traditional and close minded. And also townspeople itself is small and rural town where everyone knows everybody elses business. When Lees describes Boos house it top to bottom making it have the appearance _or_ semblance creepy and mysteries. Then she describes the other neighbors houses like Maddie. Her beautiful garden and how much she cared for it. Lee was making an introduction with the characters in the story before the character was even introduced. In the To Kill Mocking Bird, Lee used the geography setting around to describe who and what her characters where. 6) Chapter 20 So Does the Season Robert woods uses the poesy October, to translate to the reader the in meaning full way, describing the passing of life, and how quickly it passes by. In the poem he describes how he wishes his young years slowed down, and old age, the frost of winter, will not settle in so quickly. Its very good seasonal poem about ageing and the hope of less(prenominal) brief days. 17) Interlude One Story An archetype is an idea, person, or situation which is repeated in literature. An example of an archetype would be the mad scientist type of character which appears in many stories.A mad scientist doesnt have to be evil or crazy he just has to be so dedicated to his work that nix else have the appearance _or_ semblances to matter. One example of this would be Dexter from the show Dexters Laboratory. He is constantly building crazy inventions which seem to always be destroyed by his sister. He has virtually no friends because he spends all of his time in his lab. Doc from Back to th e Future would be another example of a mad scientist. He designs a time machine and uses wild and impractical methods to acquire materials and build the machine. When the device works it sends his friend Marty to the past and causes a whole mess. 8)Chapter 21 Marked of Greatness get at Potter is left with however a mere scar of a lightning bolt, from his first encounter with Lord Voldemort. Voldemort had succeeded in killing many of the people living in the magical world, including blights parents, but simply cannot defeat Harry even when he is only a baby. Anyone who is familiar with the Harry Potter series knows that the reason Harry was able to survive and defeat Lord Voldemort was because of the world-beater of love his mother displayed towards Harry. So from this scar we understand that Harry has what Lord Voldemort will never be able to defeat, which is simply the act of being loved.As the series continues and we learn that Lord Voldemort is slowly coming back into creat or, we already know the one person who has the power to defeat the dark lord. The only person who can bring Lord Voldemort back down from his power is the one who stripped away his strength and power in the first place, the boy who lived Harry Potter. 19) Chapter 25 Dont Read With Your Eyes In the Scarlett Letter Pearl, Hesters daughter, was born out of wed-lock so the towns people and, even her own mother, believed that she is evil and a demon offspring.As a twenty-first century reader that belief is ridicules because it happens in most cautions by choice or with accidental action. As for the reader of the time in the late 1600 it was a watertight colonial belief that the action, in this case the sin, of the parents will reflect of the child, and therefore the child is evil too. The author makes the assumption that the readers have a religious mentality and have same believe system. In this day in age, we do not have the same mentality. In some cases it could be bearer like Fors ter said, for the reader might shut out everything the book author had. 20) Chapter 26 Is He Serious?And Other Ironies In 1984 by George Orwell, this book is filled with banter from start to finish. Throughout the whole book every Party character is governed by the rule of two-bagger think. As Orwell writes doublethink is basically the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in ones mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. This is a good example of irony because it is humanly impossible to grasp the meaning of this. Winston is surrounded by many ironic things such as when he goes to rent an apartment with Julia he believes that he is safe from harms way because he is in Prole territory.However he later finds out that the man renting them the room was a member of the thought police and the monitor was located behind the picture. When Winston was captured and thrown and twisted in jail he was physically torn apart by little food and raging condition this was used to help kill the rebellion inside him. However, the real test comes when he meets his fate in room 101. Here he is causad with his biggest fear rats. They set up a face mask as to where the rats can attack his face, but before they release them Winston begins to speak of Big blood brother and he once again becomes a loyal member of the party.The irony here is so strong due to the fact that he wanted to over throw the party just a few weeks before hand. Winston was worn down and broken. He become like every other member of the party, the very party he had hoped to destroy forever. 21) Chapter 27 A Test Cast Answering the Prompt 1. In the short story The Garden Party, Mansfield is signifies to the reader how far the rich is to the poor. The rich class is so high and busy with their things, they dont pay attention to the lower class. They are so distract with lower class, that they have no real sympathy, just pity. 2.She signifies this in her story by describing where both perspicuous fam ilies lived. The Sheridans lived higher up and their poorer neighbors live down below. The Sheridans didnt even allowed their children to play with the arch children and their infected diseased. So when Mrs. Sheridan send Laura, the youngest daughter, to give poor family left-over from the party, she went down to darken cottages, and saw the misery and heartbreak. It opens her up to question what life really is. Isnt life? She asked her dear brother, but even he couldnt really answer the question. Though my erspective was completely different from the other examples, like Fosters example of Persephone it surprised me how much Greek mythology is in so many literature works, and how much I recognized and understood where he cited all is information. Though, Dianes prespective blew me away. I honestly think I would never see that much detail in the story as she did. To be honest I had some preconception feelings toward this story after finding out the Sheridans where rich, so it d id limit my true understanding of the story. at once I see it was more of Lauras story then a political story between the rich and the poor.