The author’s purpose of writing was to explain that all literature can follow similar plots. This talks about how all quest plots have similar structure since they all feature 5 characteristics, which are a questers, a place to go, a stated reason to go to the place, challenges along the way, and a real reason to go to the place. Readers can benefit from Thomas Foster’s helpful perspective by having a more thorough understanding of quest literature, due to the author showing readers how quest plots can be easily understood. After Thomas Foster stated his point that all quest plots follow a similar structure, he went into more detail on how one can identify quest literature; often times, the quester is made young and immature, which can increase
