interaction – the way they act towards other characters?
we can learn a lot about the character by the way they interact with other people. We can see how it differs from when they are alone or how their behaviors change depending on who they are talking to.
The author’s style has to do with the author’s vocabulary, use of imagery, tone, or feeling of the story. It has to do with his attitude towards the subject. In some novels the tone can be ironic, humorous, cold, or dramatic.
The style can reveal the author's attitudes towards the topic and the direction they are trying to push their audience towards.
The narrator is the person telling the story. Point of view: whose eyes the story is being told through. Who is the narrator or speaker in the story?
The narrator could be unreliable too adding dept to the plot and what we actually know.
How is the plot structured? Is it linear and chronological or does it move back and forth
The way plot is structured can be very unique. In M Butterfly it moves back and forth between past and present. I've read a book that starts from the end of the event and moves its way back to the beginning.
we might disregard character, plot, setting, and theme as surface elements of a text.
yea sometimes I forget about how important these elements are and forget about them as I am reading the story.
he acts are further divided into scenes. The scene is usually set in a particular moment in time and setting.
we see this in M Butterfly as the scenes switch from Gallimard's prison cell or to a party or from past to present.
promote empathy and social skills (Castano and Kidd) alleviate symptoms of depression (Billington et al.) business leaders succeed (Coleman) prevent dementia by stimulating the mind (Thorpe)
I didn't realize there were so many cognitive benefits to reading outside of academics.
basics: character and plot. From there, you can examine the theme of the work and then move on to the finer points such as the writing itself.
It can be hard to understand the main idea in literature when you read a section at a time. To make analyzing easier you can break it down by identifying the small elements first and later on think about how all of the details contribute to the author's purpose.
, literature is a cultural relic, a manifestation of the human experience. Thus, it can teach us things about our society and about ourselves we might not be able to learn from other types of media
Literature can teach us about other people's perspectives or puts us into new settings we wouldn't otherwise experience.
However, when you write something, you present a point of view through your unique voice. Even if something has been said about a book many times, you can add something new to that discussion
Reading literature can get you to think outside of the box and analyze the authors intentions in their writing. You read into the author's perspective, and you can end up learning something about yourself in the process.
t if literature isn't dead after all...but thriving more than ever? What if we radically reconsider the parameters of literature? What if literature has just evolved from sonnets and novels to tweets and memes? In this textbook, we will explore how technology has blurred the lines between Literature and literature
This is like what we said in class and how literature can be defined as anything that expresses something or has meaning. In the past, we have literary works like Fahrenheit 451 and Animal Farm that is a metaphor for historical events to convey their ideas. The same can be seen for memes that embody political cartoons to satirize what is going on in the world right now.