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Chapter 6: If She Comes Up, It’s Baptism

Chapter 6: If She Comes Up, It’s Baptism. By: Michael Levy Period 3 9-21-11. What is L iterary Baptism?. Literary Baptism is when the author of a book makes a character go into water. Either dying or coming back out of the water with a new view of life. Examples of Literary Baptism.

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Chapter 6: If She Comes Up, It’s Baptism

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  1. Chapter 6: If She Comes Up, It’s Baptism By: Michael Levy Period 3 9-21-11

  2. What is Literary Baptism? • Literary Baptism is when the author of a book makes a character go into water. Either dying or coming back out of the water with a new view of life.

  3. Examples of Literary Baptism • In a lot of literature characters die or commit suicide in water. For example in the book Ordinary People two brothers go sailing on a lake and a storm comes up, and one of them drowns” (Foster 153). The more athletic brother get killed from falling off the boat and swept away in the storm. The second brother who was weaker held on to the boat and didn’t die.

  4. Ordinary People contd. • When the weaker brother was rescued all the villagers back home said he didn‘t belong there and that the other brother should have lived instead of him. Resulting from this “he’s tortured by his success at living, to the point where he tries to kill himself” (Foster 154).

  5. When writers baptize a character they mean rebirth, new identity? • In lots of literature characters are reborn and it resembles Baptism. For instance when characters go into water and their old self dies with someone and they come back a different person like when a person is baptized. When writers baptize a character they are signaling that “he’s reborn” (Foster 155).

  6. Submersion in water doesn’t always signify baptism. Never use always and never in literary studies. Sometimes it may represent baptism or it could just be birth or a new start. In “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” her dad dies and she can’t bear the fact that he is dead. She walks into a pond filled “with slimy, smelly, and rather disgusting fluids” (Foster 160). Her doctor sees her and has to struggle to get her to safety. When she wakes up she in clean with fresh water and a blanket.

  7. What does it mean when a character drowns? • When a character drowns they are intended to die. “having watched baptisms joining people to God on a Sunday, goes back to the river the next day to join God on his own” (Foster 161).

  8. Connection to Great Expectations. • In Great ExpectationsPip goes under water and when he comes back up he realizes he must help Magwitch. At that point Pip changes and is attempting to repay Magwitch. “I only saw in him a much better man than I had been to Joe” (Dickens 429).

  9. How my chapter relates to real life. • Everyone finds a point in their life where there is a climax. At that point people change and want to make a difference in their life. They also want to find a new direction to make their own life better.

  10. WORKS CITED Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2004. Print Foster, Thomas C. How to Read Literature Like a Professor. New York: Harper-Collins Publishers, Inc., 2003. Print

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