Writing about literature

     There are many reason for people to read literature. However, writing about literature may have more practical use. According to Jean Wyrick, writing about literature can offer opportunities to practice skills like close reading, critical thinking, effective use of supporting evidence and clear expression of ideas. Also, there are two ways for literature using: prompts and literature analysis. The former is to find out a topic for your own from brief literature like poems or short stories. The latter, which is also a more usual way, is to analysis a literature working and discuss the issue or thesis behind it and provide your own interpretation. Literature analysis also contain different kinds of forms, such as discussing the same topic in different works, how does an element tribute to the whole works, how two works be compared...etc.
     No matter what ways or forms you would like to choose, close reading of a work is always necessary. In the article, Jean Wyrick provides ten tips for close reading. The ten tips include reading biographical information, noting down first reactions to the main idea or points or plots of the stories, noting down point of view, who is telling and in what ways or view do they telling, noting down the story's structure, whether if it is in chronological order or shift  the time. Also, the setting of characters or background of time and place, discussing how do they relate to each other. Language playing is important as well. Do the story use symbols or metaphor? What do they represent? And what about the tone of the story? After note down all the main points, reviewing the story is also necessary. It will help you inspect deeply and check your initial idea. By doing the ten tips of close reading, writing about literature will be easier and way more meaningful to show your points. 
     In the end of the chapter, the author gives a example to do close reading on an article "Story of an Hour", which is written by Kate Chopin. There are notes on the right column of the article, which note down some information about the technique of telling story, the first impression of the reader, the brief summary of character's relationship and plots. Through such noting and the ways to read story closer, it would be sufficient for reader to get well knowledge of how to write about literature properly.