Changing your Perspective

"Culture is so influenced by its dominant religious systems that whether a writer adheres to the beliefs or not, the values and principles of those religions will inevitably inform the literary work." Foster, page 118

Foster makes it clear that in order to observe and analyze a lot of literary work, you must have an open mind. Religious knowledge are sometimes neccessary to a literary work, in order to completely understand it, while other times, having a certain belief makes a person biased and unable to analyze properly.In order to understand all different types of literature, and analyze like a professor, students must set down their barriers and allow literature to to fill their heads with the ideas of the time and plot of the work. It is crucial to be able to change your perspective as a reader, in order to give a work proper analysis, and leave all your beliefs, religious or not, aside and focus on the work.

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