A Brief, Shining Moment of Unfamiliarity and then... Back to Basics.

    "Allowing for the fact that each part must be independent and distinct as well as connected, a plan or graph might be made of four overlapping triangles, with a list of common elements indluded within the triangles as a 'key'" (103).

    I was kind of disappointed that Chapter 5 was about plot and structure. This is one of the most basic ideas of literature... I think I recall first learning about plot in third grade! I was excited by Chapter 4 because it brought up a few ideas that I had never considered before about point of view and now it seems like we went backwards and back down to the basics.

   The one thing I did enjoy from this chapter was the idea of using a venn-diagram-like graph to help find similarities between the different parts of a literary work. Each individual section of the graph represented a different part and then each part overlapped in the middle. Reoccurring passages and ideas that appeared in all of the sections were listed under the section in which it appeared. I think that this could be yet another useful tool to use during my newly adopted close-reading process...