Foster, How to Read Literature... (Ch 13-15)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/HeatherMourick/2009/09/roadrunner_wins_again.html

Roadrunner stops at the edge of the cliff and watches the Coyote wave as he falls...

"It's really pretty straightforward: flight is freedom." pg: 128

"This may surprise some of you, but we live in a Christian culture" (p. 116)

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

"The bottom line, I usually tell the class, is that Christ figures are where you find them, as you find them." (Foster 123)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MeaganGemperlein/2009/09/finding_jesus.html

"In general, flying is freedom, we might say, freedom not only from specific circumstances but from those more general burdens that tie us down" (127).

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

History Repeats Itself/ Extreme Views are Never Productive

"No doubt about ti, airplanes and blimps and helicopters and autogiros have changed the way we perceive flight, but for almost all of human history, we've been earthbound." (Foster) p.125
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2009/09/el_266_foster_ch_13-15_flight.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2009/09/el_266_foster_ch_13-15_flight.html

I misspelled "it" above, in my blog.

"You may not subscribe to this list, may find it too glib, but if you want to read like a literature professor, you need to put aside your belief system, at least for the period during which you read, so you can see what the writer is trying to say."
~page 120

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JenniferPrex/2009/09/keep_an_open_mind.html

"But if you want to read like a literature professor, you need to put aside your belief system, at least for the period during which you read, so you can see what the writer is trying to say" (Foster 120).

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

"A man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated." (pp. 121)

Fancy Politics About Christ

Flight is freedom

"I do think, though, that most works must engage with their own specific period in ways that can be called political. Let's say this: writers tend to be men and women who are interested in the world around them." (Foster 115)

"I do think, though, that most works must engage with their own specific period in ways that can be called political. Let's say this: writers tend to be men and women who are interested in the world around them." (Foster 115)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeredJohnston/2009/10/politics_politicspolitics.html