Prompt #2


I must agree when Foster states that “writing and telling belong to one big story,” when he refers to King Solomon’s words, “there is nothing new under the sun.”  As the years progress, “new” works of literature are coming from the minds of authors that read a different piece of work to get their inspiration. What Foster means by his statement is that all works of literature build off one another. All books hold the same type of structure and layout. It is how the writer’s mind and interpretation of the story to get their message across to the readers that it becomes different. The idea of all literature work forming as one big story adds to the understanding and richness because it gives the reader bits and pieces of knowledge from other stories and concepts. It will later help the reader comprehend material of literature easier and sooner. “The devil, as the old saying goes, can quote Scripture. So can writers. Even those who aren’t religious or don’t live within the Judeo-Christian tradition may work something in from Job or Matthew or Psalms,” (Foster 43). Almost every writing relates back to the Bible. Writers relate their work to literacy works for their readers to understand in a more assuring way. The two quotes, King Solomon’s and Foster’s interpretation, intermingle in a way that the message of saying that all work eventually join each other to create a new piece of work. All the work “under the sun” is built from different writers at different times. In my own experience, when art deals with this principle, I have been taught on how and why a painting, book, or drawing were created, where the creator got his or her inspiration, each seeing an image of their own ahead of time, from someone else’s art.
Brenlin Van Camp

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  1. UnknownJuly 15, 2017 at 6:18 PM

    We wrote about the same topic but you articulated virtually the same points better than I did. When you say everything has the same structure I first thought, "no it doesn't." Then I thought about the Hero Cycle in books and movies. It is basically the concept that the main character must do these certain things to be called a "Hero." They usually begin tragically, like harry potter's parents dying. Then the Hero realizes there is something special about them, then they charge into battle in the end of the first act and get a taste of reality, kind of like the Lion King. Finally, they undergo some kind of change and they go back and destroy the villain and save the day, just like Eragon. This type of writing transcends author or genre and that, I think, is the heart of this prompt.

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