How to Read Literature Like a Professor is a book that shows numerous ways and strategies to understand what their reading. Each chapter shows examples from books and use of literary devices that can help develop the meaning of the story. Think of this book as reading between the lines. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald used people to symbolize objects or things to let the reader have an interpretation on the characters. For example, the green light represents Gatsby's future for him and Daisy to be together.
Reading symbolically opens your mind to seeing things as existing in themselves while simultaneously representing something else. Using pattern recognition while reading helps the reader step back from small details and focus on the big picture of the plot. Recognition of patterns make it easier to read complicated literature because 2. Chapter 1: Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It’s Not) • A quester •
10 Literary assignments by: Chance Weston Introduction: How'd He Do That? How do memory, symbol, and pattern affect the reading of literature? How does the recognition of patterns make it easier to read complicated literature?
This reminds me of when I read the Harry Potter series. Reading all these books helped me visualize the characters, the plot, the setting, and also helped me to understand the story
Science has proven that reading can provoke positive changes in us as human beings. Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the article ‘Your Brain on Fiction’ published on March 17, 2012. Annie explains how researchers have discovered that reading can initiate different parts of the brain, this is the reason why sometimes literature can make the reader so engaged and attached to a piece of writing. Research also explains how reading has the ability to produce activity in our brain’s motor cortex. Finally, Annie explains how reading fictional pieces can change how you interact with other individuals.
(TITLE) There’s something about reading that gives it more respect than speaking, writing, and viewing. It’s the combination of these senses which make it a book. It’s like you’re in the plot, living the setting, sympathizing with the characters, and everything that is written, can be related to and aspirated for.
“Paper Towns” is a story that is all about adventure, and therefore has a quest as the main (advancer) in the story. It results in the loss of innocence while pushing boundaries during the exciting time of adolescence. It possesses all of the five key elements of a quest as stated in “How to Read Literature Like a Professor” by Thomas C. Foster. It starts with (a), a quester, which is in this case the main character Quentin, the protagonist of the story. Then (b), a place to go, which ends up being Agloe, NY.
Memory allows a reader can look back on previous literary pieces/real-life and connect them. Using memory, symbol, and pattern makes it easy to compare many aspects of a literary work. Those techniques, make it mare enjoyable to read. When a reader is able to recognize patterns while reading complicated literature it becomes easier because the reader can analyze exactly what they are reading they can also get a more in depth understanding of the literature. Recognizing patterns makes it easier to focus on the important parts of the story.
I believe there is not a cut and dry reason to why people like reading what they do. However, people that like reading popular fiction is mainly by choice it’s just what they like reading at that particular time. Sometimes the type of literature is chosen because of the way the person feel at that moment. The reader may want to read something romantic
I do not like to read a book but I like to read texts or Facebook posts. I didn't like to read a large and big books. I like to read a short and easy story book.
In his quote, Stephen King was inferring that literature in general should make a reader get involved with what they are reading, so much that it will even affect how they are feeling from their comfort levels to how they react. I do agree with Stephen King’s statement, literature should make you feel something, it should be something that pulls you in and makes you want to know more. If you are reading something that gets under your skin or makes you react, it makes what you are reading more alluring, so much in fact that a reader could feel like they’re on a personal level with a book or feel like they are compelled to read more. The purpose of literature should be to have the reader feel something, making you want to react and feel an obligation
This keeps the reader interested and engaged, encouraging them to continue reading.
Being able to experience literature multiple ways can give students a deeper understanding of a text. Specifically, if a student only reads a graphic novel, and another student reads a graphic novel, and also reads the original book, they would most likely have a better understanding of the
At times when I read there are words that I don’t quite understand. When this happens I look up the word and see how I could use it. This also goes back to my writing, if I find a word in a book that I have read I can add it to my writing to improve my writing skills. When I see the effect of reading on my knowledge it makes me proud of myself because I used to get teased for always reading, but that didn’t matter to me because , in the end, I knew that reading would help me. All those people that teased me for always reading were probably envious of how much knowledge that I could acquire from just reading one book.
Any time I hear of the word literature, just like others, I almost always think of Shakespeare and other American or British writers of old. For me I just really love general knowledge and so reading anything that people all over the world claimed to enjoy was something I wanted to know about in order to expand my knowledge. I did not need to enjoy them I just wanted to know about them and by reading them get to know why so many people liked these kind of books so that if I was missing out on anything, I would get to know what I had missed out on. I just liked reading broad and increasing knowledge in order for me to have an edge over my peers and most people in general.
