HOW TO READ LITERATURE LIKE A PROFESSOR By: Taylor Mancini & Emily Ellis

CHAPTER 8: HANSLEDEE AND GRETELDUM

CHAPTER 8  When you are trying to write a story you want to write something no one has ever read before, but at the same time you want people to recognize what you are trying to say.  Writers borrow thoughts from other stories all the time to make their stories seem more interesting.  They look at “traditional” pieces of literature like books, novels, and poems people recognize to form their stories.  Most of the time writers borrow thoughts from kiddie lit., stories like Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, and much more.

CHAPTER 8  An example of this is in “Toy Story 2”, when Buzz and the gang try to find and save Woody. When Buzz lighter and the other toys jump on to the elevator, to save Woody, they see Zurge, buzz’s arch enemy. While Buzz is fighting Zurge, buzz is knocked down and about to be killed by Zurge when he says a familiar phrase. He says, “I am your father”, ring a bell? It is from the famous movie Star Wars. Although Toy Story may seem like its own story something new, the writers still borrowed thoughts from other movies to make Toy Story so good.

Chapter 9: it’s greek to me

CHAPTER 9  “Myth is a body story the matters” (Foster, 65). There are three types of myth: Shakespearean, Biblical, and Fairy Tales. In 1950, a fairy tale called “Cinderella” was made as we all know Cinderella grows up to be a princess and marry her prince charming, leaving her evil step mother and step sisters. Some other examples of this are “Ella enchanted”, “Ever After” and many more. They all involve a little girl growing up in a bad home, and ping her troubles behind her and live happily ever after.

Chapter 10: it’s more than just rain or snow

CHAPTER 10  In the movie, “Tarzan”, Jane is lost in the jungle by herself. Her day has been very bad considering she is in a uninhabited forest, and stuck in the trees. She thinks it can’t get any worse, but then it starts to rain. Foster says its never just rain, the rain in this scene represents her sadness and how lost she is being in an unknown area. Another example would be in the movie “Mulan” during the battle it is snowing and many men die, meaning that the snow in this scene represents death.