Summary Of Every Trip Is A Quest Chapter 1

Chapter 1, Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It's Not)
The real reason why characters go on a journey is so they can find themselves and figure out who they are.
Most of the time the journey in a story will be educational.
Although most journeys in a story is educational there are times where they aren't significant and are just there to waste time.
Chapter 2, Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communication
Eating is a way of telling somebody that you are interest in them.
When characters in a story eat or drink together it's communion.
What everybody shares and do is die/death
Chapter 3, Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires
Vampirism represent selfishness, exploitation.
Vampires can also represent sex/ sexuality
Sometimes ghost and vampires aren't

Chapter 26, Is He Serious? And Other Ironies
Irony beats everything, many stories have a lot of examples of irony or are mostly made up of irony.
Not every writer is good when it comes to using irony.
Irony beats all of the other ideas from the last chapters.
Chapter 27, A Test Case
Everyone has valid conclusions of literature.
Considering the pattern of images and allusions allow you to further find the meaning of the story.
Before searching for the meaning of a story first look for the obvious.

The Awakening

In Foster's book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, he talks about how stories always have symbols in them that have a huge meaning behind them, in Kate Chopin’s the The Awakening, the first chapter starts off with a parrot. The parrot represents Edna, the parrot says “Allez vous-en! Allen vous-en! Sapristi! That’s all right!” Which means “ Go away! Go away! For heaven’s sake!” which can represent how Edna feels about her husband and the way she has been living. In chapter 3, Edna went to her porch after her husband went to sleep and started crying. Edna felt an “indescribable oppression” which made her feel anguish. The parrot wants to be free just like Edna