In the tragedy of King Lear, Shakespeare emphasizes the importance of symbols through his usage of a poisonous serpent, specifically the poison Cordelia introduces into the family. Similarly, in the historical text, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster illustrates the concept of symbolism, specifically in Chapter 5, “Is That A Symbol?”, when he suggests that symbols often possess multiple general meanings and a vary from one reader to another reader. Likewise, the symbol of poison

"Oedipus the King", is built based on symbols such as scarred feet, crossroads, and events that represent a fateful death and troublesome consequences that a prophecy brings into the life of Oedipus. In "How to Read Literature like a Professor"by Thomas C. Foster chapter 12,"Is that a symbol?", states how authors create symbols for readers to interpret based on their values, education, gender, and imagination leading to multiple meanings. Many times readers expect symbols to mean "one something in particular"(Foster)

Thomas Foster, a professor at the University of Michigan, taught literature and writing. He was born in West Cornfield, Ohio, and living in such a small town caused him to become very associated with books. In 2003, Foster published a book, How to Read Literature like a Professor, written in second person. The book is written as a guide for readers to know the parts of nonfiction books. It teaches young readers how to include important elements into their stories. The chapters cause readers to connect

Students often struggle with how to read more in depth into the literature they are assigned in school and how to get the most out of it. How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster aims to help students get a better understanding of literature and has the title says, read literature like a professor. While reading through the book, the author makes connections to other books and readers make mental connections to books they have read in the past. The nineteenth chapter describes

How to Read Literature like a Professor Literature has been a widely debated topic throughout centuries all over the world. In addition, reading literature properly is an emulated skill within the English community. Once the trade of understanding literature is mastered, reading become a beautiful experience. How to Read Literature like a Professor is a guide that shortens the pathway through reading and understanding. This meritorious literary selection provokes an aesthetic response because it

Analysis of Symbolism In Thomas C. Foster’s book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, he argues that symbolism almost always represents multiple things. It is not concrete. It all depends on how one interprets it. Symbolism is not a concept of the black-and-white “What is this?” It is a mass of the collected gray areas of, “What could this be?” Foster asserts that it is impossible to pin down a single meaning for a given symbol; this is true even in clear-cut cases, though meaning can be very

How To Read Literature Like A Professor In the book how to read literature like a professor every chapter is based on symbolism. The author uses creative ways of symbolism to create different scenarios. The author uses different stories and symbolism to make people look at things from a different perspective. Foster states in the first chapter that everything you do is a quest and that the point of having quests is to have self-knowledge, which is saying that everything you do in life no matter

Smith AP Literature September 20, 2017 How to Read Literature like a Professor In the novel “How to Read Literature like a Professor,” Foster gives insights on how to spot and pick up on many common literary terms such as irony and symbolism by using a very relaxing tone and referencing many common novels that most readers can identify and relate to. The novel is very educational and can leave the reader asking many questions, and by the end the reader should be reading books and literature in a very