Matthew Myers
English 10 Honors Pre-AP
Vidal
September 2, 2016
How to Read Literature like A Professor Chapter Response
Introduction
Recognizing patterns can make reading easier by helping the reader to comprehend the more complicated parts of a book so the reader can get a deeper sense of what the book is trying to portray. By recognizing patterns in books it allows the reader to recall information from past experiences or texts to help them figure out what the book is trying to get you to understand.
By recognizing the symbols and patterns of animal farm it allowed me to understand the deeper meaning of the book allowing the read to not be confusing, but fun and exciting. By putting the Russian revolution and animal farm together, it made …show more content…
These pieces of literature are both based around incredible minded characters that use their brains to solve mysteries and stop the bad guys. Sherlock Holmes and Nancy Drew are one in the same with different adventures so reading one adventure is like reading the other. While reading Sherlock Holmes my understanding of Nancy Drew helped me see and understand the story better. The overall story line of the mystery, then the adventure scene to find clues, the danger, and then the solving of the mystery helped my overall understanding of the book and made it easier to read.
My last intertextual piece that helped me understand the other better is Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell. Both books represent how the authors believed the world was heading, a world with complete government control, there was a set hierarchical system where the people had no say. The books both contained a set of rules and social norms that needed to be followed. Having read 1984 before reading Brave New World helped me understand the more complex texts of Brave New World and its overall …show more content…
Throughout Macbeth the setting/location of the character was always a specific and real place in England. For example, Cawdor is a real location, Dunsinane is a real location, and all the other locations are real. Macbeth also contains events that could only happen in its location like the war going on between Scotland and Norway when the piece first starts and the battle between Malcom, backed by English troops he rallied, and Macbeth, backed by his own Scottish people.
The Diary of Anne Frank is a historical book where all the places in the book are geographically correct. She lived in Frankfurt before the Nazis came and then moved to Amsterdam to hide from the Nazis. This book contains geographical events that could only happen in her location and in her time period, when the Nazis/Germans tried taking over the world starting with their ethnic cleansing of Jews killing most Jewish families in Germany, which Anne Frank and her family so terribly got caught
English 10 Honors Pre-AP
Vidal
September 2, 2016
How to Read Literature like A Professor Chapter Response
Introduction
Recognizing patterns can make reading easier by helping the reader to comprehend the more complicated parts of a book so the reader can get a deeper sense of what the book is trying to portray. By recognizing patterns in books it allows the reader to recall information from past experiences or texts to help them figure out what the book is trying to get you to understand.
By recognizing the symbols and patterns of animal farm it allowed me to understand the deeper meaning of the book allowing the read to not be confusing, but fun and exciting. By putting the Russian revolution and animal farm together, it made …show more content…
These pieces of literature are both based around incredible minded characters that use their brains to solve mysteries and stop the bad guys. Sherlock Holmes and Nancy Drew are one in the same with different adventures so reading one adventure is like reading the other. While reading Sherlock Holmes my understanding of Nancy Drew helped me see and understand the story better. The overall story line of the mystery, then the adventure scene to find clues, the danger, and then the solving of the mystery helped my overall understanding of the book and made it easier to read.
My last intertextual piece that helped me understand the other better is Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell. Both books represent how the authors believed the world was heading, a world with complete government control, there was a set hierarchical system where the people had no say. The books both contained a set of rules and social norms that needed to be followed. Having read 1984 before reading Brave New World helped me understand the more complex texts of Brave New World and its overall …show more content…
Throughout Macbeth the setting/location of the character was always a specific and real place in England. For example, Cawdor is a real location, Dunsinane is a real location, and all the other locations are real. Macbeth also contains events that could only happen in its location like the war going on between Scotland and Norway when the piece first starts and the battle between Malcom, backed by English troops he rallied, and Macbeth, backed by his own Scottish people.
The Diary of Anne Frank is a historical book where all the places in the book are geographically correct. She lived in Frankfurt before the Nazis came and then moved to Amsterdam to hide from the Nazis. This book contains geographical events that could only happen in her location and in her time period, when the Nazis/Germans tried taking over the world starting with their ethnic cleansing of Jews killing most Jewish families in Germany, which Anne Frank and her family so terribly got caught