Bellringer:  Find one passage that struck you as especially powerful or interesting and then  and explain the potential symbolic significance of the passage while considering/referencing topics raised in one or more of the following chapters (chptrs 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 15, 18, 20, 23).

How To Read Literature Like A Professor chapter titles

Chapter 1: Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It’s Not)

Chapter 2: Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communion

Chapter 3: Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires

Chapter 4: If It’s Square, It’s A Sonnet

Chapter 5: Now, Where Have I Seen Her Before?

Chapter 6: When In Doubt, It’s from Shakespeare . . .

Chapter 7: . . . Or the Bible

Chapter 8: Hanseldee and Greteldum

Chapter 9: It’s Greek to Me

Chapter 10: It’s More Than Just Rain or Snow

Chapter 11: More Than It’s Gonna Hurt You: Concerning Violence

Chapter 12: Is That a Symbol?

Chapter 13: It’s All Political

Chapter 14: Yes, She’s a Christ Figure, Too

Chapter 15: Flights of Fancy

Chapter 16: It’s All About Sex . . .

Chapter 17: . . . Except Sex

Chapter 18: If She Comes Up, It’s Baptism

Chapter 19: Geography Matters . . .

Chapter 20: . . . So Does Season

Chapter 21: Marked for Greatness

Chapter 22: He’s Blind for a Reason, You Know

Chapter 23: It’s Never Just Heart Disease . . .

Chapter 24: . . . And Rarely Just Illness

Chapter 25: Don’t Read with Your Eyes

Chapter 26: Is He Serious? And Other Ironies

Homework: Read chptrs 13-14 (148-158) and discuss/interpret one passage from these chapters (or chapter 11 or 12 from last night's reading) in terms of the presence of potential symbolic/literary archetypes and Morrison's possible purpose for including these element in this passage. Provide the beginning and ending line and the page and paragraph number for the passage, and then write a 1-page, 11 point, Times New Roman font, mini-analysis of the passage. Embed at least two quotes into your analysis of symbolism and meaning of the passage and connect your analysis at least partially to one or more chapters in How To Read Like a Professor. You may use the chapter summaries provided in the link below to help jog your memory or to give you the gist of the chapter if you have not read the book. 

Please print a copy for tomorrow's discussion and submit it to turnitin.com. (5 completion points)