Summary Of How To Read Literature Like A Professor By Thomas Foster

Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor is a very well thought out book that would be great for most students to read before taking on a professional and a more eloquent piece of literature. Foster asserts that books are constructed in a meaningful way beyond the plot, and I agree with him to a certain extent. Yes, a majority of books have meanings beyond their plots, however, there are some basic books that were written just to tell a simple and entertaining story, for example, some children's books. Although, any person in the world could take the most simplistic story and digest it so that it has an ulterior meaning than what the author intended. Overall, I do agree with Foster in the assertion that books are constructed

I am currently reading John Green's Paper Towns and in this story, it starts out where two teenagers go on an adventure to commit a series of small crimes. Foster's claim that "every trip is a quest" reminded me that what the characters in Paper Towns did was a quest (Foster 3). They went on a mission and ran into minor conflicts, but somehow overcame them...a

I completely agreed with everything that he said because I have thought some of these things myself. Where he says "If you want your audience to know something important about your character (or the work at large), introduce it early, before you need it", I completely agree with that statement (Foster 205). I actually am trying to write a story of my own and it really helps when I introduce facts about the certain characters earlier in the story, rather than later. Overall, I think that Foster's assertions and opinions were mostly correct and agreeable. I personally agree with the majority of his opinions about literature and was kind of interested in some of the ideas and objections that he