1. What is the larger significance of the bargain that Walter Lee makes in A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry?
The major difference in Hansberry’s version of the Faustian bargain is that Walter Lee resists the “satanic temptation”, while in other forms, Walter Lee gives into the temptation. Foster states that “Previous Versions have been either tragic or comic depending on whether the devil successfully collects the soul at the end of the work”, but this is not the case for Hansberry’s version. In “A Raisin in the Sun” Walter Lee is able to look back at himself and reject the temptation before it’s too late.
2. What does Foster mean when he refers to the phrase “the language of reading”?
When Foster uses to the phrase “the language …show more content…
Foster believes this is why the questor is usually young, inexperienced, immature, and sheltered, because if the questor isn’t young then they “either have self-knowledge or they’re never going to get it.” When reading this I think of one example that might challenge this proposal which is “Don Quixote”, a work of literature that focuses on a quest of an elderly man who receives self-knowledge as an old man.
“Nice to Eat With You: Acts of Communion” (Ch. 2)
1. Why should a writer have a compelling reason to include a meal scene in a literary work?
A writer needs to have a compelling reason to include a meal scene in a literary work, due to the fact that meal scenes are so “inherently uninteresting” that they need an unseen meaning. Food is food and a writer can’t explain food in a different way than already known, so when writing a meal scene, the writer should focus on the hidden significance behind the actual meaning of the meal scene.
2. What other acts of communion can be found in literature besides the sharing of …show more content…
These acts of communion are all examples of communion, according to Foster, but while they may be represented during a meal scene they mean a completely different thing than simple “beef, forks, and goblets.”
3. Does an act of communion providing nourishment parallel nourishment in other ways?
Of course! Communion, while providing nourishment through the breakdown of food, can also create a sense of nourishment in the form of emotion and sentiment towards the subject. Communion nourishes the body, mind and soul, because it breaks down the barriers between people so that they may talk and let their feelings roll out of them. Communion may also create an act of nourishment through completeness, because when one gives themselves to someone or something it makes them feel content with themselves and the things around them, nourishing themselves and
The major difference in Hansberry’s version of the Faustian bargain is that Walter Lee resists the “satanic temptation”, while in other forms, Walter Lee gives into the temptation. Foster states that “Previous Versions have been either tragic or comic depending on whether the devil successfully collects the soul at the end of the work”, but this is not the case for Hansberry’s version. In “A Raisin in the Sun” Walter Lee is able to look back at himself and reject the temptation before it’s too late.
2. What does Foster mean when he refers to the phrase “the language of reading”?
When Foster uses to the phrase “the language …show more content…
Foster believes this is why the questor is usually young, inexperienced, immature, and sheltered, because if the questor isn’t young then they “either have self-knowledge or they’re never going to get it.” When reading this I think of one example that might challenge this proposal which is “Don Quixote”, a work of literature that focuses on a quest of an elderly man who receives self-knowledge as an old man.
“Nice to Eat With You: Acts of Communion” (Ch. 2)
1. Why should a writer have a compelling reason to include a meal scene in a literary work?
A writer needs to have a compelling reason to include a meal scene in a literary work, due to the fact that meal scenes are so “inherently uninteresting” that they need an unseen meaning. Food is food and a writer can’t explain food in a different way than already known, so when writing a meal scene, the writer should focus on the hidden significance behind the actual meaning of the meal scene.
2. What other acts of communion can be found in literature besides the sharing of …show more content…
These acts of communion are all examples of communion, according to Foster, but while they may be represented during a meal scene they mean a completely different thing than simple “beef, forks, and goblets.”
3. Does an act of communion providing nourishment parallel nourishment in other ways?
Of course! Communion, while providing nourishment through the breakdown of food, can also create a sense of nourishment in the form of emotion and sentiment towards the subject. Communion nourishes the body, mind and soul, because it breaks down the barriers between people so that they may talk and let their feelings roll out of them. Communion may also create an act of nourishment through completeness, because when one gives themselves to someone or something it makes them feel content with themselves and the things around them, nourishing themselves and