The Crying Lot 49 Essay

The first chapter of How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster is about the hero’s quest. Foster starts the chapter with a fictious example of a story with a protagonist called Kip that although on the surface seems like a search for bread, is actually an example of a knight’s encounter with nemesis, a quest. He then goes on to discuss the five components of a quest and how the parts often vary and are hidden in different forms. One of the primary take-aways from the chapter however

Read Like a Professor, Mr. Foster starts out his book by introducing one of the more common story plots, the commencement of a quest. Since writing builds on what has come before, stories such as Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Setup in The Crying of Lot 49 have similar development and organization because they’re all quests. The plot structure of a quest usually consists of five elements with the end result being the characters discovery of self-knowledge. The basic organization requires a questor

1. Defining (Post)Modernism and McHale’s Theory of Dominants The distinction between modernism and postmodernism has never been a clear-cut dichotomy, and it probably never will be, and thus can best be interpreted as a continuum (Childs 2008: Malpas 2005). For brevity’s sake, I will not (and cannot) fully explore the complex intellectual debates that function as the foundations of modernism and postmodernism, as it is not this paper’s goal to fully explore the nuanced difference between modernism

"ENTROPY" by Thomas PynchonSummary:Meatball Mulligan throws a lease-breaking party at his apartment in Washington, D.C. in early February of 1957. His guests are a colorful bunch, including Sandor Rojas, an "ex-Hungarian Freedom fighter," and the avant-garde Duke di Angelis quartet comprised of Duke, Vincent, Krinkles and Paco who together perform an original piece in complete silence. Saul, a neighbor of Mulligan's, comes in through the window after an argument with his wife concerning communication

Chapter 1: Every trip is a quest (except when its not) -Quest consists of 5 things a) a place to go b) a place to go c) a stated reason to go there d) challenges en route e) a real reason to go there -b) and c) should be put together -go somewhere to do something (stated reason to go there) -item e) real reason for a quest never involves the stated reason - quester fails the stated task -the real reason for a quest is ALWAYS self knowledge ( why quester’s are usually so young, immature, independent

doesn’t want to, the narrator threatens to leave him up there. Doodle was frightened of being left so he touched it. Once he touched it he screamed and was paralyzed. Once the narrator picked him up and climbed out, Doodle was crying and said, “Don’t leave me. Don’t leave me.” (49) With this in mind in the end of the book he had

and they each have their own values and norms. Values meaning, “the standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful or ugly.” (Henslin, 2015, p. 49). Each culture has its own expectation of behaving being a norm, meaning “expectations of “right” behavior.” (Henslin, 2015, p.49). When someone breaks a norm they may receive a negative sanction of disapproval but if someone follows the norm they may receive a positive sanction of approval. In this

rock. Many colored think I’m a white man who adopted black music.” Simon distracted, complemented Elvis, knowing he has heard his music as it electrified throughout America. “Well I’m not considered the ‘King of Rock and Roll’ for nothing. 31 movies, 49 albums, more than 100 gold and platinum releases, cracked Memphis's Segregation and I disappear on an island trying to see my old friend Muhammad Ali…” “That’s really-” Simon was cut off by the Lord of the Flies. “Aren’t you afraid of me?” Simon shook

unspoken leader of the greasers and well as the guardian of Sodapop and Ponyboy, his two brothers. In “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton, Darry is a young 20-year old man and has been taking care of his brothers after his parents passed away and has a lot of responsibilities on his young shoulders. In “The Outsiders”, Darry is portrayed as a Loyal, Sensitive, and a very caring man. Darry being the oldest of the Curtis brothers take leadership and is very loyal to his family and friends. Darry always

been carefully hidden in the recess of the mind” (Phaedrus). Puritanism was a prominent religion during the time Young Goodman Brown took place. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the story to show the Puritan beliefs of good and evil. Hawthorne implements a lot of literary devices to convey themes of people not being who they seem, with one of the main ones being foreshadowing. In the story “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, three instances of foreshadowing the text are before Goodman Brown leaves