Introduction: How’d He Do That?
If Walter Lee Younger makes a deal with the devil will everything go back to normal? Reasons to make deal with the devil
Satanic temptation
Racism
Anguish
How Walter Lee Younger handles the decision with the devil.
Looks at himself at true cost
Walter Lee recovers in time to reject devils offer (Mr. Linder aka devil) Resisting the devil shows how Walter Lee grows heroic by battling his own demons. But he barely had time to come to his senses to resist the devil Not making a deal with the devil
Everyone has to battle against their own demons it’s whether or not how strong you are to win that battle. Redemption
Getting stronger
Realization
Acceptance
Chapter 1: Every Trip is a Quest (Except when it’s Not)
If Kip goes on a quest he will go through a series of events that may change the outlook you have of the plot of the story. Why does Kip go on a quest?
His mother tells him to go get Wonder Bread from Super Market He goes through a dangerous road, a Holy Grail, a dragon, an evil night, and one princess How Kip deals with seeing the girl of his dreams, Karen with rich boy Tony Vauxhall laughing and having a good time. Kip gets even more jealous of Tony than he already was
Gets angry
Gives up any hope of getting Karen
Starts a new path in life
Every trip is a quest because it consists of a quester, a place to go, a
The Essay on To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee: Scout’s Curiosity
Throughout the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout, the narrator of the story, encounters many adventures in Maycomb, a town full of the disease of prejudice. She shows her curiosity and independence as a child by questioning and wondering about life in her community. Her independence leads her to question many of the prejudiced beliefs in her town, thus setting her in the minority. Scout’s ...
stated reason to go there, challenges and trials, a real reason to go there. But every adventure is not a quest
Going on the quest Kip realized
Revelation
Letting go
Moving on
Denouement
Chapter 2: Nice to eat with you: Acts of Communion
If Communion isn’t always holy then what is it?
An act of friendship
Sexual
Rival ends
What does Communion have to do with friendship and family relations? An act of sharing peace
A failed meal carries negative connotations
This tells of symbolism that takes place while characters are eating a meal together. Communion is not religious but spiritual.
“I’m with, I like you, we form a community together”.
Shows how a person feels towards another person.
Inviting a person over for lunch and killing them (such as a mafia leader, tribal leader) Betrayal
Evil
Trickery
Chapter 5: Now, Where Have I Seen This Before?
If literature isn’t original them what do you recognize in them all? Plot
Character personality
Type (physical description)
Authors use other authors to influence their style of writing and what they write about. They all use similar characters with similar personalities.
Lead character
Plot (and or climax)
“there’s no such thing as a wholly original work of literature” (but you can make it your idea)
Chapter 9: It’s Greek to me
If myths are a body of the story that matters, what are the three types? Biblical
Shakespearean
Fairy tales
Places classical myths are
Poems
Plays
Paintings
Recognizing classical myths in literature richer, deeper and more meaningful. Myths= untrue (sometimes), depth, imaginative
“Myth is a body of story that matters”
(but for only certain types of literature)
Mythologies (B, S, FT)
Work as sources material, of correspondences of depth for the modern writer, and provided they’re recognizable to the reader.
Chapter 12: Is That a Symbol?
Not everyone will thank a symbol will mean the same thing and it won’t Reasons why
It’s what you think the symbol means
Some writers make their symbols direct, but most let you use your own imagination. Associations readers have
The Essay on Maze Runner Character Changes
Summary: “When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he’s not alone. When the lift’s doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade—a large, open expanse surrounded by stone walls. Just like Thomas, the Gladers don’t know why or how they got to the Glade. All they know is that every morning the ...
How you feel about text
There is no definite meaning unless it’s an allegory, where characters, events, places have a one-on-one correspondence symbolically to other things. Like Animal Farm
Actions, as well as objects and images, can be symbolic
“The Road Not Taken” (1916)
Interlude: Does he mean that?
The writer is emphasizing that the obscure work and the using of the symbol and following the pattern but does he mean to do that. Reason for obscure
work may seem like a symbol
Having mind set on the speed of composition
Absorbing a lot amount of t literary culture and history
How much lateral thinking can go on in the amount of time
Chapter 20: . . . . So Does Seasons
If the seasons affect the plot of the story, then what does each season symbolize. Summer is supposedly the prime of a teenager’s life.
Winter- the characters are usually gloomy or moody
Fall is when the characters are changing
Spring – the character is probably renewed in some way
The speaker of the story likes to symbolize seasons changing on how you change as a person throughout the story. Season change= character personality change
If the season doesn’t change the character doesn’t change. “Summer is passion and love; winter, anger and hatred. The Book of Ecclesiastes tells us that to everything there is a season”. Shakespeare, Anita Brookner, Ecclesiastes, and Rod Stewart all we seasons in their stories to identical character personality change.
Interlude: One Story
There is always one story, all writers take from each other’s ideas to make it their own story. Reasons why
In this chapter the author gave examples of different books that have similar plot changing events Same type of outcome for different books
Almost all writers are interested in themselves in space or time in the world (same outlook on life) There is no such thing as complete originality in story writing. It makes the reader more interested and familiar if the story is recognized to be like another story the reader has read before. Things that are similar
The Essay on The Changes In Season
The year revolves around many seasons, namely- summer, rainy, autumn, winter and spring. Each season brings about a certain change in our lives and leaves its mark on Earth and also in our minds. Mythology has a lot to offer on the subject of the changes in season but now people refer to it as logic. When spring comes, flower begin to bloom, birds begin to sing their melodious songs and the world ...
Characters
Elements from prior reading
Chapter 25: Don’t Read with Your Eyes
Literature cannot be understood until its importance is known Reasons why
Won’t understand the moral of the story
Moments that reveal information about perspective
Social
Culture
Historical
Person backgrounds
Deconstruction is used to show how the literature is dictated and lessened by the times values and prejudices. Last Chance-for-Change
A technique used in stories to give characters a final time to transform and grow the better “If you’re going to understand the story, you have to read through eyey that are not your own”. Thomas C. Foster One must read to understand the message that is being conveyed.
