How to take notes on Animal Farm and Things Fall Apart. Understanding of human conditions Appreciation of the authors craft The experience of...

To best identify moments
that relate to "Knowledge of the world and your place in it" you may be
helped by selecting a character or two to track. The characters selected should be those who you
most connect with, empathize with, or relate to. 

Selecting out a character like this can help to give us an avatar as a
reader, a stand-in inside the story through which we can see the world of theand in that way
enhance our "knowledge of the world and our place in
it".