Getting Out Of Water Summary

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Foster in this chapter again coins a term that has religious connotation, but that is not strictly used that way. This use of biblical terms is itself a reminder of how much our world is influenced by old literature. Foster also used an interesting approach to answering readers questions by literally asking the questions in the text and responding to them. This made the text more approachable to me, because when I did have a question, it was usually answered in that format. I also appreciated that Foster used ‘he’ and ‘her’ interchangeable when referring to unspecific authors or characters; sometimes authors only use ‘he,’ and to me that sets a divide between what they think females and males can do. In this chapter Foster explained what it means when a character goes …show more content…

He listed some reasons authors include this in their writing, however he didn’t meant that writers could be writing what they know. It seems there is a long list of authors who have had encounters with water, and it makes sense to me that they would write about that happening to one of their characters rather than somethings else. Foster also explain the different meanings of the different types of getting out of water, which reminded me of a book I read by Susan Dennard. In the book, a character jumps into a fast flowing river in order to escape from some people who are trying to hurt her. Her traveling companion then jumps into the river after her in order to rescue her from the current. They end up colliding while in the river, and they survive because they both manage to grab hold of a rock face and tree. Without each other, neither of them could have survived the river, symbolizing that they are stronger together, while the rock face and tree show that luck is on their side. Foster also brought up the idea that water signifies rebirth; he said this could mean the characters personality is changed and or they are given a fresh start. In the Throne of Glass series, one

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