Foster dictate's a whole chapter to biblical language and how religion is incorporated into many works. All writer have read or heard about the bible and the different journeys within , this will allow them in put it into the writing for the readers to find. It can be a burst of apocalyptic rhetoric imagery seen in various novels. Even nonreligious writers can quote scripture it can be well known without even opening a bible. For example in Toni Morrison's Beloved a mother kills one child to save all of them "slaves" when four white men ride up, its judgment time . The riders horses are considered "green horses" a symbol of death. Authors in novels may reference events of the fall , an loss of innocence, like when an gels were stripped of their heavenly essence. Writers may not need analytical themes, motifs ,but a title which is seen in the bible a lot. Foster contemplates that many writers like those who wrote Beowolf or Paradise Lost have plots, situations and even characters right out of the bible. There is not always reference that are straight moust alludes to the bible with actually irony. These story's can become timeless, archetypical and will never grow old.
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