How to Read Literature Like a Professor

Interlude-Chapter 17
I learned that even though you should try to see how a character resembles other characters to get a better understanding of the story, not all authors mean for a certain character to resemble another. Also, everything is planned out, it may only take you a short time to read it, but it took much longer to write. Violence always means a lot more than just two people hitting eacother. Accidents that happen in literature are never really accidents, they were planned out. When analyzing a symbol, it usually can't be summarized into one thing. Actions can also be a symbol, and symbols can have a range of meanings. Most literature is political, even if it doesn't seem like it. People flying is always symbolic and meaning something since no human can fly, iy usually means freedom. Many people use ordinary objects to explain sexual parts or acts, because before sex was not allowed to be talked about. But if an author does write about sex, they're probably writing about something else. A novel is never as simple as it seems.