These ideas are inspired by How To Read Literature Like A Professor.
I am going to try and cover a different tool each day. Today however, I am going to do two closely related tools.
II. Nice to eat with you (acts of Communion and even communion)
1. Breaking bread together is an act of peace
2. Eating together can show a consuming desire for each other
3. Eating together breaks down social barriers, because it reinforces our sameness
4. A failed meal shows a crack in a relationship, or foreshadows doom
Let's use Beauty and Beast as an example. Their first meal together is a total disaster showing us that neither one of them are as comfortable as they seem. However, as they continue live and to eat together they are breaking down the barriers that keep them apart. They are starting to see how they compliment each other. In the formal dinner scene it is very clear that they desire each other.
My favorite meal scene in a movie is in Home For the Holidays with Holly Hunter. No matter how hard they try, the meal (like the family relationships) never works out smoothly. My favorite meal in a book is in Secret Life Of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. They are having a feast for Ascension Day and everything is wonderful, even magical. It is Communion with the Holy Spirit completely.
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