Every Trip is a Quest (Except When it's Not)" In How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Foster talks about how quests are divided into five parts. A questor(person who goes on the journey in a book), a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges/trials during the journey, and a real reason to go there. He mentions that some "quests may not have any hidden meaning and are consider trips, but some quest are resulted in self-knowledge, even if it did end in failure. This chapter relates to Frankenstein because Victor Frankenstein set himself on a quest to create life. He failed to see the possible outcome, and his idea turned into a failure. But, he can learn from his mistakes, and not see everything as a bad thing.(Pg. 37)
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What a symbol means is determined by the reader. One person may think a symbol means something, but another person can think it means something different. Symbols can be found anywhere in a text. They can be very detailed or very indistinct. A symbol presented in Frankenstein is light. He describes the idea creating new life as "a sudden light broke in upon me. It is used to describe feeling about his new profound ideas. At first he thought it was a great idea, but didn’t fully think about the consequences that could of occurred. "Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.(chapter 4)
"Don’t Read with Your Eyes" Fosters explains how readers must find a way to understand the meaning of the text. He explains how you should find ways to connect with the characters in order to have a better understanding of their perspective, and the story as a whole. Adding background information, as in Frankenstein allows readers to understand the characters more and fully cherish their relationship. The story begins by giving us information about Victor's childhood, and how he and Elizabeth had a close relationship. We learned that a majority of their friends and
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What a symbol means is determined by the reader. One person may think a symbol means something, but another person can think it means something different. Symbols can be found anywhere in a text. They can be very detailed or very indistinct. A symbol presented in Frankenstein is light. He describes the idea creating new life as "a sudden light broke in upon me. It is used to describe feeling about his new profound ideas. At first he thought it was a great idea, but didn’t fully think about the consequences that could of occurred. "Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.(chapter 4)
"Don’t Read with Your Eyes" Fosters explains how readers must find a way to understand the meaning of the text. He explains how you should find ways to connect with the characters in order to have a better understanding of their perspective, and the story as a whole. Adding background information, as in Frankenstein allows readers to understand the characters more and fully cherish their relationship. The story begins by giving us information about Victor's childhood, and how he and Elizabeth had a close relationship. We learned that a majority of their friends and