Foster, How to Read Literature... (Ch 18, 19, 20)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/HeatherMourick/2009/10/april_showers_bring_may_flower.html

April showers bring May flowers - and where are we going on vacation?

"Not every character gets to survive the water." (Foster) p.155

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2009/10/el_266_foster_ch_181920_drown.html

"Have you ever noticed how often literary characters get wet?" (pg: 152)

"And here's the thing he discovers: being born is painful. And that goes whether you're born or reborn"

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JamieGrace/2009/10/born_or_reborn.html

People Will COme Around in Their OWn Time

"And we feel that those novels and stories couldn't be set anywhere but where they are, that those characters couldn't say the things they say if they were uprooted and planted in, say, Minnesota or Scotland." (Foster 164)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KatieLantz/2009/10/geography_is_everything.html

"So when writers baptize a character, they mean death, rebirth, new identity?"
~page 159

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JenniferPrex/2009/10/changing_identities.html

"For about as long as anyone's been writing anything, there seasons have stood for the same set of meanings." (Foster 178)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MeaganGemperlein/2009/10/life_is_a_highway.html

"For about as long as anyone's been writing anything, the seasons have stood for the same set of meanings" (178). I know Meagan already posted about this, but I wanted to do it too.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaylaLesko/2009/10/what_season_are_you_talking_ab.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DavidWilbanks/2009/10/water_baptism.html

"it's so they can run amok."