Summary Of How Read Literature Like A Professor By Thomas Foster

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The chapter “...So Does Season” from How Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster demonstrates the use of season associating with characters and the setting. As said by Foster, spring is associated with “childhood and youth” (186) because of the new birth of flowers and nature; however, the birth of Frankenstein’s creation takes on the day of a “dreary night of November” (Shelley, 56). This quotes foreshadows hardships on the life of the creature because of the on a “dreary night” and the month of November. The month of November is the winter season and nothing can grow during that season just as the love of the creature did not grow. The creature has to live through all the season and he grows and he has a fond in the human language.

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