How To Read For Yourself

In the book “How To Read Literature Like A Professor” by Thomas C. Foster, many elements are brought to the reader’s attention. Three of these elements, happen to connect with the novel, “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time” written by Mark Haddon.

How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines by Thomas C. Foster is a book that explains there is more to literature than just a few words on a paper or a few pages in a book. Thomas Foster’s book portrays a relatable message to a wide based audience. This book is relatable for two reasons, the way it is written and the examples it uses. The book is written in a conversational manner, as if the reader was in a group discussion about books and writing. As for the examples, they are informative, descriptive, relative, and entertaining.

How do memory, symbol, and pattern affect the reading of literature? How does the recognition of patterns make it easier to read complicated literature? Discuss a time when your appreciation of a literary work was enhanced by understanding symbol or pattern.

Foster discusses the idea that when two characters eat together, that moment acts as a bonding experience and causes the characters to come together. I had never noticed the significance of a meal between characters before. After reading this chapter, I can think of so many moments in stories when the characters share a meal together to form friendships or come to a peace. In one of my favorite novels, Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, Picoult writes that “Emma Alexis- who was one of the cool, beautiful girls…she rolled her wheelchair right beside Justin. She’d asked him if she could have half of his donut” (367). Splitting the donut between one of the popular girls and one of the quieter, nerdier boys was a representation of the deformation of the high school social classes. After reading this chapter, I could recall the significance of meals together in so many novels and movies but I never noticed this pattern before.

-Flight is freedom. When a character has the ability to fly they are free from the burdens of everyday life.

In a math classroom, the teacher cannot neglect the need for providing a print rich environment. “Word walls are a technique that many classroom teachers use to help students become fluent with the language of mathematics. It is vital that vocabulary be taught as part of a lesson and not be taught as a separate activity” (Draper, 2012). Draper acknowledges the fact that words in mathematics may be confusing for students to study as “words and phrases that mean one thing in the world of mathematics mean another in every day context. For example, the word “similar” means “alike” in everyday usage, whereas in mathematics similar has to have proportionality” (Draper, 2012). Fites (2002) argues that the way a math problem is written drastically will effect a student’s performance, not just in reading the problem, but in solving the math equation as well. There is where the misinterpreting of different word meanings in math comes into play. Fites continues with the importance of understanding vocabulary not just in reading but for math as well with the correlation between improved vocabularies in math yields improvement on verbal problem solving

The motivation for the quest is implicit- the stated reason for going on the journey is

Reading “How to Read Literature like a Professor” by Thomas C. Foster changed how I analyze literature, forever. This being said, I chose the work of one of my favourite authors for this homework assignment. Toni Morrison is a brilliant author, with countless of fantastic literary works. She, among other amazing authors were mentioned in this book, which brought me to focus on her work even more carefully. I choose “I Was in Love with a Woman” and “Beloved”. They both of love, loss and self-discovery. Morrison’s work is known to be passionate, full of life and death, all that I learned how to analyze.

Intertextuality is the ongoing interaction between poems or stories. Romeo and Juliet, and the Titanic are two examples

20/11/2017, Monday. The time is 4:06 Pm when I write this answer and what I am doing right now is, writing this answer. And what I did just before writing this answer was,I am in my office hours and got tired with usual coding and my Boss went to some of our Outside factories, the perfect time to stay relaxed and I was simply scrolling down through my Quora feed and reading some answers and up-voting some.

My first experience of reading 'How to see the word' I couldn't quite get my head around how this all relates, in the big picture of things to my place here at Massey. Revisiting what I had missed, I found a deeper understanding of what I couldn't quite understand at first. This book gave me a useful and insightful experience for something I never really took the time to understand. Reading the introduction I was able to grasp what we have been learning in my Fine Arts Degree. About critical engagement with space in an environment and the change within this visual material. It is also the perspective in the wider world of thing which Nicholas Mirzoeff is trying also saying especially in visual cultures within the wide range of my social sciences

“I think I just need to sleep on it. Good night.” I didn’t sleep the rest of the night. I laid in bed tossing and turning,

Last week we wrote a blog and one of the questions was “How did you learn to read and write?”  I found this question interesting because I never had really thought about the moment when I actually learned how to read and write. My mom was the first person to expose me to reading and writing. A popular tactic she did to make sure I was staying engaged was to read aloud stories and make me follow along with her. My mom would read me many different stories like Tarzan, Bambi, Aladdin, Peter Pan, Lion King, The Jungle Book, and Hercules. whatever I wanted to listen and follow along with, she would read with me. This really helped with my want to read. The books contained a lot of adventure, which made it easy as a kid to follow along with. I became to gain an imagination and then all of a sudden reading was easier.

I completely agree with this quote because how would someone have any advantage over those who cannot read if all they do is read mindless books, or choose not to read at all. Sure, that person is able to read, but they are not acquiring their full potential. People who do not choose to read, do not challenge themselves to understand the world around them. Any able readers must try to challenge their understanding, be open to new ideas, and even challenge those ideas. People must explore their curiousness through exposure to great literature. It is displeasing to think that more people are choosing to not even attempt to read complex books. It is displeasing to think that people are reaching for tabloids at a grocery store while the nearby

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