Anupa Joseph Period 6/30/15 Fernstrom How To Read Literature Like a Professor Group A: Chapter 1: Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It's Not) 5 aspects of the quest: The quester A place to go A stated reason to go there Challenges and trials The real reason to go Example: Apply aspects of quest to something read before. I am doing Life of Pi By Yann Martel Pi Patel Canada The reader first thinks that the reason Pi’s family is moving to Canada is because Pi’s fathers zoo business was not flourishing. So they thought Canada would be the right place. The ship in which they travel is plagued by a violent storm and ultimately sinks. Pi survives in a small lifeboat with a tiger (Richard Parker), orangutan, hyena and zebra. During these obstacles, …show more content…
In both plots there are a pair of young orphan kids-- even though Lennie and George are the same gender-- who ventured off to to an unknown place. They both discover a place that turns out to be welcoming, and at the same time it is filled with temptation. In Hansel and Gretel, the kids were urged to eat the house made out of pastries and in the book, the boys were tempted to work at the ranch so that they could make money and build their idyllic place. The parallels to the fairy tale deepen appreciation, because in both stories the author addresses the theme of “survival”, and they later perceive the peril of the place they are …show more content…
In the plot device, the rain makes an effort to combine or separate the characters. For atmospherics, rain can be more isolating, murkier, and mysterious compared to other weather conditions. In the democratic element, rain falls on the just and unjust alike. Rain also symbolizes three main elements: cleanliness, restorative and destructiveness. Within cleanliness there is: form of purification, removing stains/sins and baptism. An example is from Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, where a girl spends all her money to look pretty, at the end she confronts a rainstorm that leaves her despised. In this case the rain washes away the taint and “cleanses her of illusions and the false ideal of beauty”. Within restoration, rain has the power to bring the world back to life and to prosperity. This is mainly associated with the story, Noah and the Ark where God floods the Earth and restores it. Finally, within destructiveness, rain can produce “chills, colds pneumonia, hurricanes”, which can possibly result in death. Example from A Farewell to Arms by Hemmingway, Frederick Henry’s lover is killed off during childbirth, which send the grieving protagonist out of the hospital into the rain. The Dead by Joyce, Gretta Conroy tells her husband about the great love of her life, long dead Michael Furey, a boy who stood outside her window in the rain and died a week