literature cheat sheet

literature cheat sheet Reading: How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster Please create a quick reference guide or “cheat sheet” for each chapter of How to Read Literature Like a Professor. Include an analysis of the pattern/symbol discussed in the chapter as well as any examples from literature that you have read. Example: Chapter 1 significance pattern and symbol: Because any journey to accomplish a task, however mundane, can be considered a quest, authors utilize this pattern/structure to lead their characters along a path of selfdiscovery. The process allows the author to guide the reader along this path as well, beginning naïve like the protagonist and ending informed with the knowledge acquired through the quest. Based on the context, tone and character’s reaction to the success or failure of the quest, this device assists the author in conveying his/her thematic views from the text. chapter 1 literature example and analysis:Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club “The gray-green surface [of the polaroid] changes to the bright colors of our three images, sharpening and deepening all at once. And although we don’t speak, I know we all see it: Together we look like our mother. Her eyes, her same mouth, open in surprise to see, at last, her long-cherished wish.” (288). In Tan’s narrative, Jing-mei Woo agrees to meet her long-lost half-sisters in China, recently found after her mother’s death, as an act of love and devotion to her mother who she believes she never really knew. Jing-mei embarks on a quest to meet her sisters, constantly doubting whether they will recognize her or if she will be able to accurately convey who her mother is to two people who never knew her. However, in the process, Jing-mei discovers that she knew her mother better than she thought, reflected in the symbolism of the polaroid... chapter2 .... 3... 4... like this continued. remember its not a formal essay.