Foster, How to Read Literature... (Ch 8, 9, 10)

"...every night is followed by a new day, that life is an endless cycle of life, death, and renewal, in which one generation succeeds another until the end of time" (Foster 50-51).

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

Let's talk about friends, acquaintances, and.. heights?

"We may not know Shylock, but we all know Sam I Am." (Foster 59)

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

"It's never just rain."

"What we mean in speaking of "myth" in general is story, the ability of a story to explain ourselves to ourselves in ways that physics, philosophy, mathematics, chemistry--all very highly useful and informative in their own right--can't." (pg. 65)

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

"Here's what I think we do: we want strangeness in our stories, but we want familiarity, too." (Foster 63).

"Walcott reminds us by this parallel of the potential for greatness that resides in all of us, no matter how humble our worldly circumstances."
~page 69

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

"Here's what I think we do: we want strangeness in our stories, but we want familiarity, too." (Foster) 63.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2009/09/el_266_foster-repetitiveness.html

"For now, though, one does well to remember, as one starts reading a poem or story, to check the weather." (Foster 81)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeredJohnston/2009/09/i_just_wish_it_would_rain.html

What to Borrow,Myth,or Ranin and Snow?

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DavidWilbanks/2009/09/oh_yeah_this_is_reading_for_a.html

"Greek and Roman myth is so much a part of the fabric of our consciousness, of our unconsciousness really, that we scarely notice" (66).

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

"You may say that every story needs a setting and that weather is part of the setting." (p.75)

"four great struggles of the human being: with nature, the divine, with other humans, and with ourselves" (pp.71)

Its really more like 3 battles but only 1 war...

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/PeachesOstalaza/2009/09/the_bigger_picture.html