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Rain rarely is just weather.

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Plot is characters in action; characters are shaped by plot.

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Literature consists of specific and general violence.

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Symbols are objects with meanings deeper than what they literally are.

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Text Connection:
- Lord of the Flies

Text Connection:
- Jane Eyre: Bertha Mason

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World Connection:
- Hotel California by Eagles

Text Connection:
- Animal Farm

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Text Connection:
- Epic of Gilgamesh

World Connection:
- The Lion King

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Symbols are ambiguous (range of interpretations), allegories can be reduced to a single meaning

To interpret symbols, we use:
1. Questions
2. Experience
3. Preexisteng Knowledge of other Works

Reader is shaped by reader's background --> so is their interpretation of a symbol

Symbols are objects or images with a hidden meaning

Symbols can also be events or actions

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Self Connection:
- The weather has the power to change one's mood.

Text Connection:
- Jane Eyre at Marsh End

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Two Categories of Violence: Specific and General

Specific violence = stabbings, shootings, murders, etc.

General, authorial violence = death and suffering introduced into literary works for thematic or plot development

Character on character violence vs. author on character violence

Violence has many interpretations: social, psychological, historical --> always a symbol of a broader situation

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Literature is made up of static (flat) and dynamic (round) characters who undergo change --> somewhere on the spectrum

Change is fatal for the "sidekick" but not the protagonist --> surrogacy phenomenon

Sidekicks/flat characters die to fulfill needs of the protagonist --> sacrifice to move plot forward

Why we need flat characters:
1. Focus on protagonist
2. Reduce intensity of reader's labor
3. Clarify purpose/eliminate distractions
4. Length --> keep it concise

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Water in great volume = bible/mythology, typically Noah's Ark

Weather creates atmosphere and mood in a work; e.g., Rain = loneliness

Characters can be cleansed by rain

Rain is also associated with spring --> restorative

Rain mixes w/ rainbows --> God's everlasting covenant w/ man

*You can apply this to other elements of weather as well