Chapter 7-...Or the Bible
People from every generation from all around the world know the Bible, making it a great resource for references. Stories about temptation and falling from the "good life" (grace) all pertain to the Bible.
Chapter 8- Hanseldee and Greteldum
As a writer, you have to be careful who you borrow ideas or references from. A reference to a current movie probably won't be recognized in 100 years, but then who can you reference from? The answer is the classics such as fairy tales, folk tales (Like Hansen and Gretel), the Bible, and the classic Disney princess movies. One quote from the book really sums up this chapter perfectly, "...we want strangeness in our stories, but we want familiarity too. We want a new novel to be not like anything we have ever read before. At the same time, we look for it to be sufficiently like other things we've read so we can use those to make sense of it."
Chapter 9- It's Greek to Me
The three types of myths that have been talked about in this chapter are Shakespearean, biblical, and folk/fairy tale. The most universal is biblical, as said in chapter 7. Thomas C. Foster defined myths as "the ability of story to ourselves to ourselves in ways that physics, philosophy, mathematics, chemistry can't."
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