How to Read Literature Like a Professor

What questions should readers ask themselves when they encounter an act of violence or a death in a piece of literature?

Chapter 11.

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Authors rarely introduce violence straightforwardly, to perform only its one appointed task, so we ask questions. What does this type of misfortune represent thematically? What famous or mythic death does this one resemble? Why this sort of violence and not some other?

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How to Read Literature Like a Professor