Foster, How to Read Literature... (Intro to Ch 3)

"Memory. Symbol. Pattern. These are the three items that,more than any other, seperate the professional reader from the rest of the crowd."

When most people(and I include myself in this category) read a story they tend to focus on the characters and story and what is only on the surface. But when we begin to "read like a professor" we can begin to dig a little deeper and begin to analyze the story and its characters. We can begin to seek out symbols and themes we may have otherwise overlooked.

"The real reason for a quest never involves the stated reason. In fact, more often than not, the quester fails at the stated task."
~page 3

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JenniferPrex/2009/08/quest_for_reason.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DavidWilbanks/2009/08/real_vampires_dont_sparkle.html

"That's what this figure really comes down to, whether in Elizabethan, Victorian, or more modern incarnations: exploitation in its many forms" (pg 21).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaylaLesko/2009/09/a_vampire_that_doesnt_suck_blo.html

"Next to our morality which comes to great and small equally, all differences in our lives are mere surface details" (Foster 14).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KatieLantz/2009/09/life_and_death.html

So this might not be as insiteful as others but isn't communion just for in church?

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JamieGrace/2009/09/is_communion_just_in_church.html

"The act of taking food into our bodies is so personal that we really only want to do it with people we're very comfortable with. As with any convention, this one can be violated." (8)

"But you don't need fangs and a cape to be a vampire." (pp.19)

Every story has a quest, but I never really noticed until someone brought it up.