How to Read like a Professor

Blake Allen How to Read Literature like a Professor protect Allen Introduction memory symbol pattern These basic examples of literary analysis can be found in most literature from Lices Adventures in Wonderland to paper town. Every Trip is a Quest a sequester, a place to go, a stated creator, challenges and trials en route, and a real reason real reason is always self-knowledge In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo goes to the Caplet party because his friends dragged him along but the real reason was so that he could meet Juliet. Nice to eat with you whenever people eat or drink together, its communion nominally of allone is food ND death/ animation In The Great Gatsby when Tom Buchanan takes Nick Caraway out to drink with his friends, we regard just how pubic Toms aliveness really is. Nice to eat You Vampires selfishness, exploitation, a refusal to respect the autonomy of other people Ghosts and vampires atomic number 18 never only round ghosts and vampires older figure representing c orrupt values virginal effeminate strapping her youth, energy, virtue continuance of life for the old male death/destruction of female In The Scarlet Letter, Roger Chlorinating can be considered a vampire haunting Hester.He wants revenge for his wifes betrayal. He is a scholar and uses his knowledge to disguise himself as a doctor, intent on discovering and tormenting Hester anonymous raw sienna instead of revealing himself for years. Where have I seen Her Before on that points no such thing as a altogether original work of literature theres only one story Characters must be great in their own right before being compared to more(prenominal) famous characters I connect Jane Ere to Hester from The Scarlet Letter because while both Characters can stand tall on their own they desire a earth to stand with them and for them.Its from Shakespeare Even in just everyday speech we use Shakespeare- To thin own self be true sounds smarter, gives authority In the study Band of Brothers the Saint Crisping Day Speech from Henry V becomes the inspiration for the squad to carry on. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers Or The Bible Innocence, The Fall, serpents, apples, gardens, Timelessness, archetypal In Everlasting Tuck there are several times when a character is led only by a mysterious fire in the distance much like the Israelites were led in the exodus of Egypt.Handled and Graduated Kid stories build the basis of our themes Their usually about morals Sleeping lulu can be interpreted to mean a girl avoiding growing up by sleeping until a prince comes to rescue her from childhood. Its Greek to Me myth is a body of story that matters-patterns common to usual life Johnny Terrain, a character set after Paul Revere, had an Achilles heal that has crippled so numerous characters and people alike Fear. Even when a trust- worthy doctor offers to fix his wound hand, he is too afraid to admit the truth of how he injured himself.More than Just Rain Its never just rain-cle ansing, death, rebirth, desolation, replenishment Jane Ere is always the personification of the weather, whether its a cloudy foreshadowing or a red dawn tail end a burning castle. never Stand Next to the Hero action always leads to change-grow, learn, mature Characters are not people They are products of writers and readers imagination bear down of the Light Brigade depicts a loyal brigade that, even when it is clear that they are going to die, give their lives when their leader is given a mistaken shape to charge on. .. More than Its Ghana Hurt You Character caused-shooting, stabbing, bombing (moves plot) Author caused-meaning behind shooting stabbing Meaning behind) When Jeanie has to shoot Tea Cake in Their eyeball were Watching God she waited until he tried to shoot her four times, as the first three were blanks it didnt entirely set in too her that it was her life or Tea Cakes and the fact that she waited for the fourth shot may have meant she wanted to die with tea cake t hen live without him.Its All policy-making Political writing-writing that engages the realities of its world A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist are strong examples of the depiction of the need for public services in 1 sass England Shes a Christ figure, too mounded hands, feet, side, self-sacrifice, good with children, carpenter, forgiving, redeemer Gangland in Lord of the Rings can be a Christ figure because he scarifies himself with his arms out stretched to save the world from the wrath of Sorry and is resurrected to continue to help Bilbo Basins destroy the ring.Flights of Fancy Flight is Freedom banter trumps everything In the The myth of Deals and Cirrus, Deals make wings for himself and his son but his sun flew to high and was burnt up by the sun, Apollo, then he fell into the ocean. Its All about Sex.. Nothing isnt a sex implication In Jane Ere she is often depicted in relation to wide rolling landscapes while inside the tall towering castle of Edward Rochester. shut Sex Sex is about pleasure, love, sacrifice, and/or submission When Jeanie first discovers sex under the pear tree feels sets a standard of love for the rest of her life and compares all men to her first time Geography matters Where? -location in relation to hills, valleys, chasms, mountains, seas, islands, people, north, south, east, west space taken up or empty when writers send characters south, its So they can run amok The location OfGenies home throughout the book gives a relation of how society saw her status the average life at nannys and Logan Clicks were ground level homes, at Judos, her room was on the second story of her home so that even when she slept she was above the townspeople, and with Tea Cake she was below sea level as she and tea cake didnt own anything. So Does Season New life, adulthood, harvest, death spring, summer, fall, winter In Jane Ere, the death-white realms of the arctic that Beck describes is death to a girl suffer for freedom Marked for Greatness When a character is flawed, physically or otherwise, it is often a mark that will lead to fame even if its in infamy. Cackles heal, peradventure the most well know flaw of Greek tragedy, caused the sudden, dramatic downfall of one of the greatest heroes of literature.Hes blind for a reason mammalian Jones principle if you want your consultation to know something important about your character, introduce it early/ A character may chose to ignore or may be ignorant of clearly known facts to the reader this is blindness Jeanie forces herself to not see the sickness Tea Cake has until he rises to shot her the fourth time and she knows that she cannot ignore that life is really threatened. Its Never Just a Heart Disease Illness is usually a physical manifestation of inner struggle or pain. 1. Not all diseases are equal 2. It should be picturesque 3. Hysterics origin 4. Strong symbolical potential On his death bed, Joe Starks says he did everything he did for Jeanie so that when he was gone s he would acquire all he obtain so that she could sit the high-throne he built for her even after his death. Dont Read With Your Eyes Analyze with your brain, read through their eyes see what they see and know hat you know Can this person be saved In Shakespearean Romeo and Juliet, when both Romeo and Juliet see that their respective lover is dead they both personally decide that life sin t worth the living.This is a particular contrast in Romeo, as at the beginning, Romeo was in deep grief over another girl but not to the point of suicide. Its my Symbol and Ill cry if I Want too use what you know, every work teaches us how to read it as we go along, you know more than you think you do Everything is a symbol In Animal Farm there is symbolism in the windmill. The windmill represents the exploitation of the dim-witted animals by the pigs.As the pigs feast, learn, and keep warm most of the animals are starving, have given up on information and are freezing but never do they question t he pigs because when they complete the mill they will have all of that. Is He Serious? And Other Ironies irony gives a second, third. Layer to text irony may not work for everyone some miss it The irony of Animal Farm is that, though the animals had revolted ascribable to unfair treatment by humans, in the end the majority were worse off than ever before.