In the eighteenth chapter(160-170) of Foster's How To Read Literature Like A Professor, Foster explains in this chapter that a drowning can be a part of the authors plot or can be seen as a change of faith for the character. Maybe the character was going through troubles throughout the novel, but the drowning is seen as some type of renewal. This could be a representation of Baptism because once someone is submerged they are forgiven for their sins and can be changed into someone different, a reborn person. Foster explains this by saying that “taking the new believer completely underwater causes him to die out of his old self and to be reborn in his identity as a follower of Christ”(Foster 167). An example of this is shown in The Great
