Why Do I Have To Take A Literature Class?

1. Why Do I Have To Take A Literature Class? Introduction to Literature AIM AAS Degree Prof. Lay dlay@slcconline.edu

2. NON-FICTION • Environment is highly complex and integrated…The problem of measuring those physical conditions that really govern plant behavior is much more difficult than is commonly conceived…The intensity of most factors varies with the hour, day, and season, and the rates of change, the durations of particular intensities…The common practice of integrating measurements taken over a period of time as mean values may obscure very important time aspects of factor variation. • Plants and Environment by R. F. Daubenmire

3. FICTION • The dawn creeps in stealthily; the solid walls of black forest soften to gray, and vast stretches of the river open up and reveal themselves; the water is glass-smooth, gives off spectral wreaths of white mist; there is not the faintest breath of wind, nor stir of leaf; the tranquility is profound and infinitely satisfying…Well, that is all beautiful; soft and rich and beautiful; and when the sun gets well up, and distributes a pink flush here and a powder of gold yonder and a purple haze where it will yield the best effect, you grant that you have seen something that is worth remembering. Mark Twain

4. Justification: Non-Fiction • All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed, for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. • Romans 3:24-26 (NAS)

5. Justification: Fiction • Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: “God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.” But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, “God, be merciful to me, the sinner!” I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.Luke 18:10-14 (NAS)

6. FICTION • Short Stories • Novels POETRY • Poems • Songs DRAMA • Plays • Movies

7. Why Engage In Literature? Benefits of Literature

8. I Read Literature Because… I enjoy it I better understand myself I can identify with you I can see God’s power of creation I can grasp the Bible deeper I can share the gospel

9. Dangers of Literature • I might accept a lie as truth. • I might be lead to destructive emotions. • I might be influenced to disobey God.

10. Christians and Literature • “I do not ask you to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one”John 17:15 • “The faith which you have, have as your own conviction before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.” Romans 14:22

11. HOW TO READ LITERATURE Multiple Perspectives

12. Genre Author Reader Literature History Worldview Ideology Literary

13. Fiction Plot Character Setting Ideas Point of View Symbols Mood Objects Allusion Theme Style Poetry Events Structure Character Setting Ideas Point of View Mood Objects Allusion Style Meter Sound GENRE

14. AUTHOR • Family • Birth • Education • Personality • Occupations • Dreams • Accomplishments • Disappointments • Reputation • Lifestyle • Beliefs • Death

15. HISTORY • Setting of the work • Year • Political events • Religious events • City and Country • Setting of the author • Year • Political and Religious events • City, Country

16. IDEOLOGY • Religious • Political • Social • Cultural • Racial • Economic • Gender

17. READER • Personal application • View of the author • Personal reaction • Misunderstandings • Recommendations • Mood • Reading Background

18. WORLDVIEW • Reality • Universe • Humanity • Death • Morality • Knowledge • History

19. LITERARY • Monomyth: One Story • Motifs • Archetypal Images • Literary Borrowing

20. Monomyth: One Story Summer Fall Spring Winter

21. Summer Romance Fall Tragedy Spring Comedy Winter Anti-Romance

22. The Quest The Initiation The Tragedy The Comedy The Temptation The Rescue The Cinderella The Scapegoat The Journey The Death/Rebirth Literary Motifs

23. Supernatural Human Characters Relationships Clothing Human Body Foods Sounds Movement Animals Landscape Plants Buildings Inorganic Water Nature Direction Archetypal Images

24. God angels heaven Satan Demons Evil spirits Evil beasts Witch Hell Supernatural

25. Hero Virtuous wife, husband Innocent child Friend Servant Wise man Good farmer Just judge Villain Harlot Tyrant Wanderer Traitor Sluggard Fool Drunkard thief Human Characters

26. Wedding clothes White colored clothes Armor Stately garment Sackcloth Dark clothes Lack of clothing Dirty clothes Clothing

27. Bread Milk Meat Manna Oil Wine Olives grapes Hunger Drought Famine Starvation Poison drunkenness Food

28. Sheep Lamb Dove Gentle birds Singing birds Lion eagle Monsters Wolf Tiger Dragon Vulture Owl Snake Goat Wild dogs Animals

29. Garden Park Mountaintop Fertile plain Rock Safe pathway Dark forest Wilderness Dark valley Tomb Cave Pit Landscape

30. Green grass Rose Vineyard Lily Evergreen Plants of healing Thorn Weeds Dead plants Willow tree Pruning of branches Plants

31. River Stream Pool Spring Fountain Showers of rain Flowing water Sea Stagnant pools Floods Water

32. Breeze Summer seasons Calm after storm Sun Stars Sunrise Day rainbow Storms Autumn Winter Sunset Darkness Lightning whirlwind Nature

33. Rising Height West North Right Straight Descent Lowness East South Left Crooked Direction

34. Literary Borrowing LITERATURE Shakespeare Fairytales Bible Greeks/Romans