Read Literature Like A Professor Thomas Foster Character Analysis

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Essay 2 In Thomas C. Foster, how to read literature like a Professor; It’s never just heart disease talks about how heart disease is the most important and lyrical literary tool, since the heart disease can show a lot about the character and even show clear symbolism, closely related to the character. The heart shows a great deal about how the character in the story is and foster talk about this by saying that some characters can have a heart of iron, heart of loneliness and a heart that is heartbroken. These all describe and can put a clear picture about some of the emotions. Because of the detail that the heart can be used also show bad love, loneliness, cruelty and other weakness that the character may possess. With that being said, you can use the heart as an example in Homer’s the Odyssey, about how Homer talks about the journey Odysseus and how Odysseus goes through different task on his way home and talks about the emotions and …show more content…

This is true to Odysseus since he has a heart of anger. Yes, he may not show it throughout the novel but he is trying to hold his anger in until a certain situation came around. We first see it when he is taunting Cyclopes. Then when he gets home and has a plot to kill all the servants since they tried to sneak off and have sex with the suitors. This made Odysseus ponder on if he should spring on them and kill each one, or just let them lie. Odysseus goes om to say to Penelope, “What Zeus would have him do-- how to return to Ithaca after so many years- by stealth or openly. You see, then, he is alive and well and headed homeward now no more to be aboard far from his island, his dear wife and son. Here is my sworn word for it. (Homer) “. Here he is telling Penelope, that he is going to kill the