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How to Read Literature Like a Professor
HTRLLAP Chapter Analysis
10 and 14
Greg Hill and Zoe Sapienza
Chapter 14
Outline
Application
Chapter 10
The Grapes of Wrath
Attributes of Christ
The huge flood that overtook the family's home, shows the destruction that weather can bring to communities and lives of innocent people. While weather can be a blessing, the terror it invokes in this novel can be related to Foster's description of this powerful force.
- There is more than one way to look at religion
- Must know about Old and New Testaments to get most out of reading European and American Lit
- Culture is influenced by large religious groups
- Allusions and analogies are often used
- Religious knowledge is useful
- Don't bring your own religion into your reading
- Christ figures are used so writers can make a specific point
- 33 years old
- Unmarried
- Sacrificing yourself
- Tempted by the devil
Chapter 14
Quotes
"Ever since we crawled up on the land, the water, it seems to us, has been trying to reclaim us."
Chapter 10
"Culture is so influenced by its dominant religious systems that whether a writer adheres to the beliefs or not, the values and principles of those religions will inevitably inform the literary work."
"Rain can bring the world back to life, to new growth, to the return of the green world."
"If you want to read like a literature professor, you need to put aside your belief system..."
"One of the paradoxes of rain is how clean it is coming down and how much mud it can make when it lands."
Chapter 10
It's More than Just Rain and Snow
"Don't have to be male. Don't have to be Christian. Don't even have to be good."
Outline
Allusion
Chapter 10
Chapter 14
- It's never just rain and snow
- Warmth, cold, inhospitable, playful, filthy, mysterious, misery, cleanliness physically and Mentally), restorative, hope, confusion
- Can cause death.
- Water claims us (floods)
- like Noah
- Drowning is a human fear
- Rain forces people together
- Unifies people
- Rain falls on everyone no matter what they believe
- Rain+Sun=rainbow=Divine Promise
Lord of the Flies
Chapter 14
Yes, She's a Christ Figure, Too
Simon form Lord of the Flies is a Christ figure who doesn't hold all attributes. People liked him, and he embodied moral goodness. He was then sacrificed when he was killed by the people of the island. Therefore, symbolizing Christ.