How To Read Literature Like A Professor Chapter Answers Rated A

How To Read Literature Like A Professor Chapter Answers Rated A Chapter 1: Every Trip is a Quest (Except When it's Not) 1. What five things does a quest consist of? • A "Quester" • A place to go • A stated reason to go there • Challenges and Trials • The REAL reason to go there 2. What is the real reason for a quest (always)? The real reason to go is never for the stated reason; the quester often fails at the original task; The real reason for a quest is always to gain self-knowledge. 3. What is Foster's overall point about journeys or trips in literature? Foster's point was that trips and journeys represent the growth and maturing of the main characters. It's never JUST a trip. 4. What is a book or short story that you have read that involved a quest? Explain how it fits the five aspects of the QUEST. The aspects of the QUEST can be applied to one of my favorite books, Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine. Ella is the quester, who was born into a noble family and "gifted" by a powerful fairy, Lucinda, with always being obedient. She must go to a finishing school shortly after her mother passes away with two malicious girls, Hattie and Olive, who become her stepsisters when their parents marry. Ella runs away from school to find Lucinda to reverse her "blessing" so that people can no longer manipulate her; she has adventures with elves, giants, ogres, and Prince Charmont and experiences several internal struggles along the way. (Spoiler: in the end she figures out that she's had the ability to resist other's commands all along and becomes free.) Chapter 2: Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communion 1. What does "communion" mean? Act of peace and sharing. 2. For what reason does Foster suggest that authors often include meal scenes? Writing a meal scene is so difficult, and so inherently uninteresting, that there really needs to be some compelling reason to include one in the story. 3. What does a failed meal suggest in literature? Stands for a bad sign, 4. Choose a meal from a literary work and apply the ideas of Chapter 2 to this literary description. A meal from a literary work and that applies the ideas from Chapter 2 is Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks: When Katie invites Alex over for dinner at her house, the way she eats is the first time she indulges herself since she escaped her abusive husband Kevin. Even though she is indulging herself and acting as though she is moving forward with her life, she takes tiny sips and bites, eating gingerly showing that she is still weary of Kevin returning. Chapter 3: Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires 1. What is literal vampirism? What is symbolic vampirism? What are the "essentials of the vampire story" and what do they represent? Apply this to a literary work you have read. The essential of the vampire's story is that it must contain an older, alluring, corrupt individual taking advantage of a young, pure being. The vampire is someone who does not accept the autonomy of another and exploit people for its own needs. An example of this is in The Vampire Assistant novel where the older corrupt vampire Mr. Crepsley essentially forces Darren a young boy with naïve ideals to become a vampire. Darren as the story progress moral fiber to erode as he as to keep continuously disregard his human morality to survive as a vampire. Mr. Crepsley suck the live out of Darren youthful idealism like