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Chapter 19 Geography Matters…

Chapter 19 Geography Matters…. Erin Knight 9/21/11 Period 4. What is Geography?. Geography is landscape and place. It can also be “psychology , attitude, finance, industry, or anything that place can forge in the people who live there” (Foster 166). It may even be theme, symbol, or plot.

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Chapter 19 Geography Matters…

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  1. Chapter 19Geography Matters… Erin Knight 9/21/11 Period 4

  2. What is Geography? • Geography is landscape and place. • It can also be “psychology, attitude, finance, industry, or anything that place can forge in the people who live there” (Foster 166). • It may even be theme, symbol, or plot.

  3. What Can it Do? • Geography can characterize and even develop character.

  4. Going South • Whether it’s Korea or Italy or Germany or Vietnam, “when writers send characters south, it’s so they can run amok”(Foster 171). • The effects can be tragic or comic, but they generally follow the same pattern.

  5. Up and Down? • First of all, what is high? • “Snow, ice, purity, thin air, clear views, isolation, life, death”(Foster 173). • Then what is low? • “Swamps, crowds, fog, darkness, fields, heat, unpleasantness, people, life, death”(Foster 173). • Some of these appear on both lists, which can make either environment work for you if you’re a writer.

  6. Conclusion • High or low, near or far, north or south, east or west, the location of poems and fiction really matter. • It not just setting. • “It’s place and space and shape that bring us to ideas and psychology and history and dynamism”(Foster 174).

  7. Geography Matters in Great Expectations • In Great Expectations, Dickens is very descriptive when it comes to geography. • An example would be, “…And the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed” (Dickens 12).

  8. Geography Matters in real life • All around us, there are landforms and emotion. • These fall into the category of “Geography” • Without landforms to help us identify areas, or without emotion, we would be totally and completely lost.

  9. Works Cited • Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. New York: Bantam Dell, 1986. Print. • Foster, Thomas C. How to Read Literature Like a Professor. New York: Harper-Collins Publishers, Inc., 2003. Print.

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