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Chapter Summary Of Chapter 25 By John Foster

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In chapter 24, Foster encourages readers to eliminate all preconceptions before meeting a literary work since writers have created a certain message for the reader. In most cases when diseases are incorporated in a story, the writer uses the disease to carry a message. It is important to note that not all diseases are treated the same in literature. TB and Cancer are two, crown-holding diseases when it comes to significance in literary works. The use of fevers has a a wide army of possibilities, but can represent the randomness of fate, harshness of life, the unknowability of the mind of God, and the playwrights lack of imagination. In chapter 25, Foster demonstrates the importance of reading ‘between the text’ in which you can find hidden
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