How to Read Literature like a Professor Unlike in Faust, however, A Raisin in the Sun portrays Younger as refusing to make the deal and sell his soul to the devil. Lindner’s offer to buy out Younger’s claim on his house, this is the narrative trope of making a “deal with the devil. Lindner represents the devil, and that when the protagonist, Walter Lee Younger, considers Mr.” Foster explains that this trope stretches back throughout Western literary culture, for example in the many versions of the Faust legend. The introduction begins in Foster’s college classroom, where he and the students are discussing Lorraine Hansberry’s play a raisin in the sun.
Memory involves recollection of previous works studies or read that might spur the reader to make connections between works, symbolism is a mantra that prevents the reader from taking things merely on face value, whilst identification of patterns within a work enable the reader to distance him/herself from the text even as they engage with it, to take a broader and clearer perspective of things. Foster distinguishes between the beginner reader and the experienced one by comparing their reading experience - the former reacts to the book or text on an affective level, also called the response level, where the reader reacts emotionally or instinctively to events.
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Woolf draws parallels between the knight figure and Christ, arguing how the latter was represented in medieval culture (and perhaps even before) as the knight who embarks on the quest. This is certainly a fresh way to consider the importance of the journey and knight motif that Foster presents in the first