Chapter 7 -Literature

For the Chapter "...Or the Bible," I drew references, to relate his ideas, from a poem by Lucille Clifton, Moses. Throughout the Chapter Foster discusses the current day use of scenarios in writing that can draw back to relate directly to stories in the bible. Scenarios including loss of innocence, overcoming odds, overcoming hardships, restoration, and the end of the world. All these things are jam packed in stories today. So this ultimately sparks the idea that maybe this is just an example of how all stories are related and that their is some unseen pattern between stories such as these (discussed in chapter 5). Foster draws on the effect of theses biblical references in the end of the chapter. He says that theses stories are those which can bring men together because, they are representing hardships, trials, and tensions that have been shared by man since the very beginning of time. These stories will continue to bee passed down as stories of unity and understanding. Moses by Lucille Clifton, is a short poem packed full with biblical references and twists. My understanding of the poem seemed to relate the Story of moses in the Bible to many hardships in life, he speaks of "walking on bones" and "leaving slavery" the repressed tone in this poem seems to draw on the common belief that God is watching over those who simply believe. When hard times are present and thriving God will be there to guide you and watch over you as you journey into the darkness of the unveiling path that you make take. This poem represented the idea that in current day novels common hardships can be traced back to those of Moses, for example. And men and women can relate themselves to him, bringing people together in "pain guilt pride and love."