After this entry I will only have two more entries! I cannot wait to be done with this, frankly. How to Read Literature Like a Professor has proven me wrong. I thought this book would be more like a manual, and literally show me how to read like a professor. Foster has, however, helped me learn how to read like a professor in a most enjoyable and humorous manner. Foster’s humor is what is going to help remember the points he has pointed out. Such as all the former texts that have become authors’, creators’, and directors’ favorite places from taking patterns, names, and themes. There is Shakespeare, the Bible, fairy tales, and mythology. I could relate to Foster’s report on how one author uses the Bible to choose names for children. For my very Christian family, the Bible is the first place we go to look for names whenever someone in the family is pregnant. Using the Bible for names has become so engrained in my mind that whenever my girlfriends and I fantasize about our future family, and we get to the part when we have children and have to come up with names, that I always think of the name Noah. He was the only righteous man, in GOD’s eyes, so Noah was the only man along with his family to be saved from the flood. That is why Noah is my name of choice because he was a righteous man and was trusted by GOD to be saved from a terrible flood. And that is also why I would never chose the name Cain, because of the nightmarish story behind the way Cain murdered his brother, Abel, and how GOD chose to take care of Cain’s death by putting a mark on him so nobody else could kill Cain, a very dark story from the Bible. I suppose it is the Bible’s diversity of stories is what makes the Good Word a favorite among authors for allusions.
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