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How To Read Literature Like A Professor: Chapters 10 and 19
Chapters 10 and 19
By Sasha Ferrer
End of Chapter 10
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End Of Chapter 19
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- As the two characters (Huckleberry Finn and Jim, the escaped slave) travel more and more south, the slavery grew worse.
After rain, there is usually a rainbow. In literature a rainbow symbolizes peace and promise between Heaven and Earth. A rainbow after really terrible weather....why does that sound familiar?
The Great Gatsby- When Daisy and Gatsby meet again from their long separation, it is raining. If you want to look that deep into it, it could represent hopelessness. We all know that despite Gatsby's affections towards Daisy it most likely won't happen.
Geography can be land, a person, or even a theme.
When people go south, or down to anywhere, most likely they will suffer a tragedy or some sort of obstacles.
Deaths being written about geography can either be very clean and cold or very horrible and unpleasant. (Ex. The Snows Of Kilimanjaro)
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The Grapes of Wrath- In chapter three of the novel, we are told about the turtle in the desert.
This represents how the family's journey will be long, dry, and difficult.
Song of Solomon- In this novel by Toni Morrison, her character Hagar goes through an entire make-over. In the end all the falseness is washed away leaving her in her natural form....miserable.
Chapter 19- Geography Matters
Chapter 10- It's More Than Just Rain or Snow
-Rain can be associated with Noah
-It can also represent cleansing, or even becoming more stained.
-Rain, Sun and Rainbows.
-Weather (in general) can be used as a plot device.
- When a character is sent South, there is a high chance something bad will happen. ("...direct, raw encounters with their sub conscious" -Thomas Foster)
Low places- Swamps, crowds, fog, darkness, fields, heat, people, life, death.
High places- Snow, ice, purity, thin air, clear vies, isolation, life, death
- With Poetry and Fiction, geography isn't just land, it can be people too.