The Big Idea
Chapter 1: Trips in a reading are general a quest that brings the character challenges.
Chapter 2: Sharing meals is an act of communion and can either bring positive or negative bonding from characters.
Chapter 3: A “Spook” is used to personify the ugly desires of humans and put subliminal messages in the reading.
Chapter 4: Sonnets are meant to be short and sweet with an overall shape of a square.
Chapter 5: Stories always grow from other stories and recognizing this deepens our appreciation and the meaning.
Chapter 6: Most writers use what is common in culture as shorthand in a plot and this usually means Shakespeare is used.
Chapter 7: Writers were able to count on the Bible as a common touchstone before the mid-20th century.
Chapter 8: Fairy tales are widely used in all kid literature.
Chapter 9: Writers love to echo myths because it’s a short story with deep meaning.
Chapter 10: All weather has a symbolical meaning behind it.
Chapter 11: There are two categories of violence and either can bring up questions, famous deaths, or representation of misfortune.
Chapter 12: Symbols are tricky but important; you need to pay attention to associations and emotional reactions you’d have.
Chapter 13: Writers are people that are interested in problems of the world, making everything have a political element.
Chapter 14: Christian figures are used to deepen sense of character sacrifice, have to do with redemption, and make the character look smaller instead of greater.
Chapter 15: Flying, literal flying and nonliteral, shows freedom and positive uplifting. If flight is interrupted it means something negative.
Chapter 16: Sex, written in symbols, is a significant part of literature that can intensify any writing easily.
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