Mrs. Jones English 101 28 August 2015 Chapter Analysis of How to Read Literature like a Professor (chapters 11-15, 18-27) Chapter 11 - ...More Than It’s Gonna Hurt You: Concerning Violence The main objective of this chapter is to describe violence and its purpose in a literary work. In this chapter, the author speaks of violence and the two kinds of violence which are the specific injury and the narrative violence. Violence can be described as symbolic, thematic, biblical, Shakespearean, romantic, allegorical, or transcendent. Examples of character cause violence include stabbings, shootings, drownings, poisoning, and etcetera. When harm or suffering is brought to the characters without the characters being responsible, it is narrative violence. Chapter 12 - Is That a Symbol? This chapter is about symbolism. The author says that everyone will have different ideas when it comes to what something symbolizes. None of these ideas is exactly wrong because many authors will let you use your imagination to determine what something symbolizes. In some cases, the author makes the symbol direct but usually, the task of deciphering a symbol is left to the reader 's imagination. Chapter 13 - It’s All Political Chapter thirteen tells how most writing is based on political values. This is because many of the people who write literature tend to be interested in the political aspects of life such as world problems, power structures, social class relations, and so on. Some literary works
with that "somebody" being the author (Foster 95). This reveals an important element of violence in literature, because it shows how violence, unlike other elements of a story, connects the internal events of the story to the story itself and ultimately the reader and author. When reading literature one of the goals is to understand the story beyond its literal meaning, and this
This chapter talks about allegories, an allegory is using different elements to represent different things. All allegories are supposed to be interpreted the same way, where as symbolism can be different to every person.
Chapter 12 is about symbolism. The author says that not everybody will think a symbol will mean the same thing and it won't. The symbol is whatever you think it means. Some writers make their symbols direct, but most let you use your own imagination.
In the book ‘How to read literature like a professor’ the author uses symbolism throughout the book. Foster uses this technique so he can use objects, and short stories to help the readers understand what is really going on without being blunt about it. Symbolism is using an object or word to represent an idea. This style of writing challenges the reader to use their imagination to really grasp what is really going on.
Literature is the window to realizing the negatives of society and how destructive certain norms can be. Readers are brought into a completely different story than their own, but by using similar issues in today’s world, the readers can actually learn from the story and its overall message. All writers write for a purpose, whether it’s for a new meaning to life, to live a different life than our own, or to impact others on an emotional level by teaching them to see the importance of the little things. As a reader, you search for pieces of literature that interest you whether you find the story like your own, or wish you lived the life in the story. By using issues in today’s within their works, authors are able to grab the reader's attention long enough for them to get across what they wanted to get across. Often in many works of literature, writers use societal issues as their basis for the work’s themes and symbols. By doing so, this allows the reader to question the morality behind social norms and how impactful certain ideals can be in people’s lives.
As much as society does not want to admit, violence serves as a form of entertainment. In media today, violence typically has no meaning. Literature, movies, and music, saturated with violence, enter the homes of millions everyday. On the other hand, in Beloved, a novel by Toni Morrison, violence contributes greatly to the overall work. The story takes place during the age of the enslavement of African-Americans for rural labor in plantations. Sethe, the proud and noble protagonist, has suffered a great deal at the hand of schoolteacher. The unfortunate and seemingly inevitable events that occur in her life, fraught with violence and heartache, tug at the reader’s heart-strings. The wrongdoings Sethe endures are significant to the meaning
Conflict in The Cask of Amontillado and A Poison Tree also reveals the theme that suppressed anger can sometimes lead to revenge which can result in explosive violence. The man vs. man conflicts in both of the writings are examples of revenge fueled violence.
From the beginning of time, human nature has lent itself to violence and brutality. You see evidence of this as you read the news, or watch television. You might have been, or will be, the victim of this dark side of human nature. Looking back to the children of Adam and Eve, Cain killed his brother, Abel, marking, as I heard in a theology class, what many theologies claim as “the paradigm for conflict and violence.” Throughout our readings in The Story and It’s Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction, we have seen many episodes of violence and brutality, ranging from torment to ritualistic murder. What do these acts represent within each story? In examining “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, and comparing it to “Sweat” by Zora Neale
This presentation gives a rhetorical analysis of the article titled “Violent Media is Good for Kids” by Gerard Jones. The author takes a very radical position to demonstrate that even though people have considered creative violence to poison the minds of the young ones, there is the opposite positive side, which he considers better than its defects. In doing so, it is worth pointing out that rhetorical analysis as an academic exercise, which seeks to examine a piece of literature with an objective to identify the important inferences of ethos, pathos, and logos. In this regard, Ethos examines the ethical implications in the article in the communicated message. Pathos, on the other hand, attracts the people’s emotions by coining out some important feelings that they can identify with. Logos finally highlights the logical proclamations in the piece of literature for that matter. In this spirit, the interest is to examine the literature while pointing the different segments that reach out to the threesome concepts highlighted above.
Murder, assault, and other forms of violence are widespread plagues that haunt modern society. In order to combat these relevant issues society has implemented different systems over the years. These systems have moved from a simple mindset to intricate organizations of jurisdiction and law. Violence appears not only in reality but, in novels and literary works alike. Albert Camus’ The Stranger depicts a modern system of justice; however, Sophocles Oedipus Rex portrays a simplistic system of justice. Society implements these to prevent the downfall of the human race. Society protects humanity from its own demise by condemning acts of violence. Acts of violence, weather brought on by anger as illustrated in Oedipus Rex or by environmental
Many people have different views on whether or not they are for or against violence in children’s literature. I am for children’s literature due to the fact that if one is not educated, how is one expected to know. In this essay we will look at the pros and cons of including violence in children’s literature.
The first chapter provides the reader with a brief walk through the history of violence throughout the centuries. Topics he touched on include of the biblical times’ bloody, wrathful written history as a principle even if many of these instances never occurred. Keeping in mind the stoning, beheading, burnings, and mutilation you could receive as punishment for a cardinal sin, torture in general was widely accepted and practiced during
Over the years, the public have gone through very little peace and a mass amount of violence every day of their lives. Whether it is because of the actions of a leader or the actions due to enforced laws, people have gone and will go events in their lives that are too emotional to forget. And to read about the same violence they have gone through in the past has made us realize whether or not we are doomed to repeat our mistakes and cause the same violent acts that have been caused before. In this essay, I will provide examples of violence shown in the works of different authors and how their characters and stories have provided ways in which they have handled their actions to prevent further violence from contaminating their lives.
In the literary realm, violence is more than a means of capturing the reader’s attention, but rather violence can set an entire book’s plot into motion. In order to fully understand how violence contribute to the meaning of work as a whole, one must first understand the motives and nuances surrounding the act or acts of violence. On many occasions, a single clear cut reason for violence does not exist-the author deliberately leaves ambiguity so that the reader can contemplate the act from many different angles. One novel in particular exemplifies this notion that scenes of violence can hold perceptible ramifications while appearing to be senseless and to be without an understandable meaning: The Stranger by Albert Camus. The novel is centralized around a single act of unspeakable
Before comparing the two television shows, I defined six different types of violence. First, verbal violence includes any use of hurtful language toward others or self like insults. Next, physical violence features hurting others or self with your own body such as hitting someone