Flights of Fancy In How to Read Literature Like a Professor Thomas c. Foster described various methods that writers can use to change a text from just words on paper to a masterpiece. Through this book Foster hoped that his readers would be able to see the deeper meaning in every text they read and make reading more enjoyable. For instance, In chapter fifteen Foster describes how writers use actions like flying and falling to describe freedom and escape or the failure to reach both. While reading this chapter I remembered one book has a strong correlation to this content this book is called the awakening. The Awakening (1899) by Kate Chopin is a book that is surrounded by the themes of freedom, escape and collapse. The book is surrounded around the story of a married woman named Edna. Edna felt that her freedom as an individual is taken away from her since her only role in life is to be a perfect mother and wife, however, as she processes through her life she realizes that this is not the life she desires. Edna wanted to be an artist with no …show more content…
At the beginning of the book we see a caged parrot that is constantly swearing at Edna’s husband. The bird’s state describes Edna’s state figuratively as a woman who is caged by her marriage and hates her husband, even though her husband was a not a bad man, she hated him out of jealousy of the freedom that he is naturally given. Later as the story processes, Edna starts her quest for freedom, a friend of her checks her wings figuratively to see if she has strong enough wings to soar above society’s prison and achieve the impossible. Edna, however, was not able to break free from her imprisonment and she drowned herself in the sea, and at the setting of her death, a bird with broken wings falls from the