Every Trip Is A Quest
Introduction: How’d He Do That? The recognition of patterns makes it easier to read complicated literature because it helps one look for specific details, not to dwell on the unneeded or non important details. It creates a story that can be analyzed and stripped apart to better understood because the basic patterns in literature lead a non-basic understanding. An instance of the understanding of the patterns in literature was freshman year reading John Steinbeck’s The Pearl, in which Mr. Olson explained the basic connections between the predator and prey relationships subtly placed throughout the novel, the small fish and the bigger fish, the dusty ant and the lion ant, and less subtly the pastor and Coyotito. Moreover Olson explained the often animal like diction that represents the primitive way the native’s are perceived, and lastly how the Pearl, though beautiful and large, brought with it the evils of greed.
Chapter 1: Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It’s Not) The five …show more content…
This automatically qualifies as the political aspect of the geography, but more on the earliest part of the novel in which Liesel’s brother dies not in the city or on the train but outside of the train caught somewhere between his new home and old home, new life and old life, adding to the plot because it adds to Liesel’s experience with death and also growth. The next aspect of the geography would be a mixture of the politics and the overall theme because it is all about the power of words and how they can be used for good or bad, and Germany being a prime example; contrasting Liesel and Hitler. The last aspect of geography Liesel must travel north to get to the books she ever so loves, showing that to the north is her sanctuary but when her mother is fired from doing the dry cleaning for the people in the north part of the city, Liesel and lost and the Nazi’s full power is soon exhausted onto
Chapter 1: Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It’s Not) The five …show more content…
This automatically qualifies as the political aspect of the geography, but more on the earliest part of the novel in which Liesel’s brother dies not in the city or on the train but outside of the train caught somewhere between his new home and old home, new life and old life, adding to the plot because it adds to Liesel’s experience with death and also growth. The next aspect of the geography would be a mixture of the politics and the overall theme because it is all about the power of words and how they can be used for good or bad, and Germany being a prime example; contrasting Liesel and Hitler. The last aspect of geography Liesel must travel north to get to the books she ever so loves, showing that to the north is her sanctuary but when her mother is fired from doing the dry cleaning for the people in the north part of the city, Liesel and lost and the Nazi’s full power is soon exhausted onto