Every Trip Is A Quest Summary

Chapter 1 - Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It's Not)

In this chapter, a quest is defined to consist of five main elements: (a) a quester, (b) a place to go, (c) a stated reason to go there, (d) challenges and trials en route, and (e) a reason and go there. Element (a), the quester, is understood to be embarking on a journey while being with or without the realization that he/she is on a quest. The quester is also often depicted as one of youth because youth is accompanied with inexperience and a lack of self knowledge which allows the ultimate goal of the quest to be fulfilled which is the gating of this knowledge.

Chapter 2 - Nice to Eat With You: Acts of Communion

In this chapter, it is explained that communion occurs whenever people

eat or drink together with the reason for meeting not necessarily being that of religious purposes. The author states that the act of having communion with someone is an event of which one would only wish to take part in with someone they care about. Communion is a symbolic gesture that can stand for a variety of things. The author also mentions that one purpose of communion is to show how one feels about another.
Chapter 3 - Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires
This chapter goes on to explain how vampirism isn't always about vampires. Vampirism is a characteristic a character can portray such as selfishness, exploitation, evilness, or rudeness. The character takes advantage of people like a vampire would of its victims. Vampiristic qualities are often portrayed through monstrous characters such as ghouls, ghosts, werewolves, and other creatures of nightmares or the common villain. This form of literature is often used to discuss a subject indirectly or to convey a hidden message. The most famous pieces of literature featuring vampirism comes from Victorian writers such as Stevenson, Dickens, Stoker, J.S. Le Fanu, and Henry James.
Chapter 4 - If It's a Square, It's a Sonnet
A poem is a sonnet when it is fourteen lines long and each line contains ten syllables. The height of the fourteen lines is similar to the width of the ten syllables. This helps give a sonnet poem the slight appearance of a square. Many of the most recognized poems in litterateur are sonnets. Sonnets are the most common form of poetic writing and have been popular since the English Renaissance.
Chapter 5 - Now, Where Have I Seen Her Before?

In this chapter, the author explains that reading litterateur is like filling in a connect the dots sheet, the more works one reads, the easier it becomes to notice a pattern or repetition. The author explains that there is no such thing as a wholly original work of litterateur. This is because authors use other authors to influence their writing style and the topic they write about. Characters of different books from different authors are often found to have similar personality traits as well.

Chapter 6 - When in Doubt, It’s from

Shakespeare...
In this chapter, the author points out that nearly all works, those being written or on film, have some connection to Shakespearean works.

The connection might be in the story's plot, the personalities of the characters, or the theme of the work such as jealousy, greed, or justice versus mercy. One example the author gives of a work influenced by Shakespeare is West Side Story which the author says famously reworks Romeo and Juliet.

Chapter 7 - ...Or the Bible

The author tells us that every litterateur work is somewhat related to or referring to the Bible. The author tells us that writers often refer to the Bible because nearly everyone knows at least some of the stories from Bible. Works that relate to the Bible often involve themes of denial, betrayal, temptation, and etcetera.

Chapter 8 - Hanseldee and Greteldum

In this chapter, the author explains how many stories relate to fairy tales, like a parallel. Themes and storylines from popular fairy tales are often reused and made into newer and sometimes slightly different versions of the tale. A prime example of this would be the 2013 movie production of Jack the Giant Slayer or the 2011 production of Red Riding Hood. One characteristic of fairy tales is that they all have a plot and a solution which makes the story easy to connect to. This characteristic makes it possible for there to always be a way to connect a story to the fairy

tales.
Chapter 9 - It’s Greek to Me
There are three types of myths which are Shakespearean, biblical, and fairytales. This chapter is about myths and how they relate to Greek mythology. The author defines a myth as being a story that has the ability of explaining ourselves to ourselves in ways that physics, philosophy, mathematics, and chemistry are incapable of doing. There are many things connected to Greece and named based off of Greek mythology. Towns, mascots, pets and some people are often given names originating from Greek mythology.
Chapter 10 - It’s More Than Just Rain or Snow
In this chapter, the author explains that weather is never just weather. With weather comes symbolism. The form of weather and its description can symbolize purification, restoration, destruction, negativity, positivity, and etcetera. The uses of weather in litterateur include plot device, atmospherics, democratic element, cleansing, and restorative purposes. The weather is a highly crucial detail when setting the scene of a story.