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How to Read Literature Like a Professor Thomas C. Foster

How to Read Literature Like a Professor Thomas C. Foster. Danielle O’Neal Mrs. Stratton. 15. Flights of Fancy. What is Flight?. Flight means the act of flying through the air. Wondrous. Compelling . Beautiful. Humans cant fly, . BUT. most birds can. Flight in Literature.

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How to Read Literature Like a Professor Thomas C. Foster

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  1. How to Read Literature Like a ProfessorThomas C. Foster Danielle O’Neal Mrs. Stratton 15. Flights of Fancy

  2. What is Flight? Flight means the act of flying through the air • Wondrous • Compelling • Beautiful Humans cant fly, BUT • most birds can.

  3. Flight in Literature In literature flight is… FREEDOM Example: Steven Spielberg’s E.T. When the bicycles fly off to escape the adults and they are free from conformity. escape spiritual imagination love

  4. Flight is Freedom Example: Gabriel GarcíaMárquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” (1968) • A very battered old man with wings falls from the sky into a small town. One of the residents locks him up in a cage and society judges him for his appearance, but they see him as a spectacle. Whoever visits him receives some type of aid but they are ungrateful for it. Once the man regains his strength he flies away . • The old man is now free from the cage and from the way society judges him.

  5. Flight vs. Fall To fall is the opposite of flight, to collide, to collapse. frightening fearful If falling from great heights death is expected, but if one survives it is a miracle and an act of wonder. The same feelings of flight.

  6. Metaphorical Flight Flight is symbolized by… • Birds Freedom • Wings • Feathers Souls are said to take flight when a person dies. Escape

  7. Power of Flights of Fancy Flights of Fancy allow readers to… • Imagine • Wonder • Experience what the characters feel • Feel FREE!

  8. Works Cited Foster, Thomas C. How to Read Literature Like a Professor. New York: Harper, 2003. Print.

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