10 Literary assignments by: Chance Weston
Introduction: How 'd He Do That? How do memory, symbol, and pattern affect the reading of literature? How does the recognition of patterns make it easier to read complicated literature? Discuss how your appreciation of your summer reading novel was enhanced by understanding symbol or pattern. Memory affects the reading of literature because it allows you make connections and will assist in recognize patterns in the novel. Patterns, in turn, can reveal hidden meanings in the text, for instance, if something is mentioned repeatedly through out the novel that is a large clue that it is of extreme importance to completely comprehending the piece of literature. Symbols reveal to you what text can 't and guide you to a more complex and complete understanding of the underlying point the author is trying to make. Understanding of symbols and patterns within the novel catcher in the rye allowed me to better grasp the point that the author, J. D. Salinger, was trying to get across to me. It is unlikely that I would have been able to grasp the message without the understanding of patterns and symbols and would likely have brushed it aside as a simple short story.
Chapter 1 – Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It 's Not)
A Quest consists of five elements: 1. a quester, so to speak, or the person who is on a quest. 2. a place to go. 3. a stated reason to actually go there. 4. challenges and trials on the way. 5. a real reason to go there.
They are also putting the plot of the book into their own words in which they may forget to add the theme of the story. Analyzing literature is much more in-depth because students can include the theme or main idea that the author has
Memory is the quality that allows the readers to personally connect with a work of art. Relatable works tend to have more of an emotional impact on the reader. Symbols are used to connect the tangible to something intangible. Through this connection, readers will associate the aspects of the thing being symbolized to the symbol. For example, if a character is used to symbolize the devil in a work of art, the audience will associate the aspects of the devil to the character. Patterns allow readers to parallel one work of art to another work of art.
The five aspects of the QUEST are a quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges en route, and a real reason to go there. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the quester is Atticus Finch who is a lawyer in Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. He has to go to court to defend Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman. The challenges he encounters is the town’s racist white community who wants to have Tom killed without a trial. Atticus’s reason to defend Tom is more than just defending an innocent man in court. He wants to defend Tom because it is the right thing to do; finding
An author’s use of diction and syntax can dictate the meaning of a text as a whole. In The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, Salinger uses these literary devices to establish the message in his novel. Salinger tells Holden Caulfield’s story in three days, showing the struggle of the desire to grow up but failure to act upon this maturity. One page from each of these days exemplifies the literary devices to shape the theme of the novel. Salinger’s use of diction and syntax aids his message of the preservation of innocence in a world that forces its children to grow up.
Being able to understand memory, symbol, and pattern in a literary work help to appreciate it and makes it more enjoyable. If someone couldn't understand or recognize these then they could miss some of the bigger points of a story because they could be focused on other things in the story other than what they should be. If you can recognize patterns and other things then you know what to look for and what is important, rather than just hoping to notice it. There have been a lot of novels in which my appreciation for it has risen because I was able to recognize a symbol or pattern. One my favorite ones, however, would probably have to be in Fahrenheit 451 with the destruction of the city and and everything else being compared to a phoenix. Mankind
The five aspects of a quest are ( A.) a quester, ( B.) a place to go, ( C.) a started reason to go there, ( D.) challenges and trials en route, ( E.) and a real reason to do there. “Once you figure out quest, the rest is easy”. The started goal fades away throughout the story line and a new one is created. In the movie The Wizard of Oz the ( A.) Quester is a young, naive Dorothy, who is from Kansas. Dorothy is caught in a tornado and lands in the Land of Oz. ( B.) A Place To Go: When Dorothy arrives in Oz she finds out the only person the can get her back home is The Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz, who lives in the Emerald City, and the only way to get there is to follow the Yellow Brick Road. ( C.) As Stated Reason To Go There: Dorothy wants
How do memory, symbol, and pattern affect the reading of literature? How does the recognition of patterns make it easier to read complicated literature? Discuss a time when your appreciation of a literary work was enhanced by understanding symbol or pattern.
In Chapter 1 the author explains the symbolic reasoning of why a character takes a trip. They don't just take a trip they take a quest. Structurally a quest has a quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges and trials en route, and a reason to go there. Quests usually involve characters such as a knight, a dangerous road, a Holy Grail, a dragon, an evil knight, and a princess. The quest also involves the character to gain self-knowledge out of taking the adventure to the stated place where he or she is going.
Salinger’s full use of symbolism goes unnoticed until his novel is read a second or third time. Most of it
How do memory, symbol, and pattern affect the reading of literature? How does the recognition of patterns make it easier to read complicated literature? Discuss a time when your appreciation of a literary work was enhanced by understanding symbol or pattern.
-There are always five parts of a quest: the quester, an end goal, a purpose, obstacles in the path, the deeper lesson learned from the quest.
* Quest consists of 5 things: A quester, place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges and trials en route, and a real reason to go there.
Tom C. Foster states that the five aspects of a quest include; (a) a quester (b) a place to go (c) a stated
The recognition of patterns makes it much easier to read complicated literature because recognizing patterns will help you relate two or more pieces of literature together, therefore making it easier to understand and analyze the literature you are focused on. Patterns in literature can help the reader understand plots, settings, themes, and other literary elements. I greatly appreciated the novel, Brave New World because of how different the society in the novel was from the one I live in. Using the Signposts from Notice and Note, I was able to see contrast and contradictions that enhanced my understanding of the book. I noticed how I was expecting Bernard, in Brave New World to be just like everybody else in the novel but instead he was a “normal person” that felt normal human emotions, such as the longing for love, that the other characters just did not feel. He also felt isolated and alone. Bernard thinks in a way we were not expecting. Patterns such as this helped me, the reader, to better understand literary elements.
Many novels cannot be fully understood and appreciated if only read for face value, and J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is no exception. The abundant use of symbolism in Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is of such significance that it “proclaims itself in the very title of the novel” (Trowbridge par. 1). If the symbolism in this novel is studied closely, there should be no astonishment in learning that The Catcher in the Rye took approximately ten years to write and was originally twice its present length. J.D. Salinger uses copious amounts