Narrator Essays & Research Papers

Isabel Miranda Dineen Juventus August 28, 2014 John Smith as a Narrator John Smith is not a credible narrator because he is writing a third person narrative about himself; therefore there is not more than one perspective neither more than one point of view. This gives his writing a possibility of being subjective. One of the main reasons I believe that John Smith is not a credible narrator is because his point of views and perspectives are biased. This also brings up the possibility of him...

Is Holden a reliable narrator? Yes and no. The main reason is the same for both these answers: Holdens is explaining events that are happening to him. That means that he has the best knowledge about the topic but also that he is interpreting and telling them in a totally subjective way which could be different from other people's point of view. One more reason to answer negatively is that Holden calls himself "the biggest liar you ever seen in your life" which is clearly a strike against his...

Unreliable Narrator Essay Gothic literature intends to thrill readers leaving them confused, or to dwell on the thought that there is something beyond us. Two widely known gothic literature authors and their works are “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allen Poe, and “ An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce. Poe and Bierce not only write gothic literature, but both authors utilize unreliable narrators in...

There are many techniques Jean Rhys uses to bring across the point that the narrators are unreliable and the truth twisted, it is an interesting and effective idea as it makes the reader feel confused on who to trust and really involves them in the book, and they become party to the secrets. It is very confusing for the reader, since during reading the narrators of the story change very suddenly; there are three different 'books' in WSS each with a different narrator. Book one is the main...

Noel By Michael Plemmons The story has a 3rd person narrator. It is not an omniscient narrator since the narrator doesn’t know everything that’s going on in everybody’s mind or at least the narrator isn’t telling us about any thoughts or anything like it. The angle is very narrow since the narrator isn’t giving us much detailed information about the characters or the scene. In the story there isn’t any main character. In the story we have three kinds of characters: the buyers, the seller...

Humans are constantly in search for belonging, it is something vital to our existence. A sense of belonging emerges from our ability to establish connections with place, people and culture. However when these aspects are challenged, we find out if we truly belong or not. Such ideas are explored in the texts, ‘The Ride of Zhu Bao Sheng’, a third person short story by Nick Long, and ‘Big World’, a first person short story by Tim Winton, which both explore the idea of belonging being challenged and...

Narration has a profound effect on the interpretation of a story. This interpretation changes depending on whom the narrator is and whether they are involved in the story. In Thomas King’s short story “Borders”, a twelve-year-old boy recounts the experience he had with his mother crossing the United States border. As a result of a child narrating, it is easy to see the contrast between the boy and his mother, the ignorance by the government, and the compassion in the duty-free manager Mel....

Mary Shelley uses three narrators in her complex narrative of Frankenstein to create a certain degree of objectivity- the novel starts with an epistolary structure with the letters of Robert to Margaret with include an account of the life of Victor and that of the narrative of the monster through the narrative of Victor. The narrative plot is can be said is made of concentric circles with Robert in the outer most circle, Victor in the second circle and the monster in the innermost circle. In...

Finding the narrator in Black and White David Macauley’s Black and White, published in 1990, opens with a warning “stamped” right in the middle of its very first page: “This book appears to contain a number of stories that do not necessarily occur at the same time. Then again, it may contain only one story. In any event, careful inspection of both words and pictures is recommended.” Postmodern picturebooks often contain metafictive elements, including non-linear plots, self-referential...

Crossing Some fathers take their sons out on camping trips to create a closer bond. These trips are cozy and relaxing and are done under safe circumstances. Most fathers would never dream of taking their sons out on dangerous trips, which is not the case in Mark Slouka’s short story, Crossing, which was published in 2009. It’s a nerve racking story about a father who takes his little son on a survival trip in a forest, which turns out bad....

”Dancing to Nat King Cole” by James Wall Title: “Dancing to Nat King Cole” by James Wall Plot The story is about a couple, Charles and Katherine Simpson. They are having lunch with their grown up daughter, Rebecca, at their usual restaurant The Angel. Rebecca asks her mother how Charles is doing because Rebecca thinks he is doing worse than last time. Katherine says that he is fine. But actually he is doing weird things in the house like clears unfinished plates away or cleaning kitchen...

The Narrator Sets the Tone Authors often use narrative to influence the way the reader perceives a given topic. Using different types of narrators, for example first person or omnipotent, the author can control the information available to the reader, which causes the reader to draw conclusions based solely on the information as presented. In “A Rose for Emily”( 84 ) the author uses a limited omnipotent narrator to relay the events over a period of several decades that relate to Miss Emily...

Graded Assignment Narrators Answer the following questions in complete sentences. You will need to turn in this assignment to your teacher using the Assignments tool. Remember: You need to complete the assignment by the due date to receive full credit. (5 points) 1. What characteristics identify a first-person narrator? Answer: It is someone that was there that saw it or experienced it. (5 points) 2. What characteristics identify a third-person narrator? Answer: It is where...

Atonement – Analytical Essay Ian McEwan's ambitious and prize-winning novel, Atonement follows the actions of a young girl, Briony Tallis, who witnesses an event which she knows holds some kind of significance. Yet her limited understanding of adult motives leads her to co¬¬mmit a crime that will change the lives of everyone involved. As she grows older, she begins to understand her actions and the grief that has been caused. The entire novel is an attempt of reconciliation that Briony...

“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known”. Discuss. Nick Carraway, the narrator of the great American novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is often heralded as one of the greatest narrators of all time. However, whether Nick was a reliable narrator is an issue that is up for debate, with my personal belief being that Nick was not a reliable narrator, due to his fondness for exaggeration and contradiction, and his obvious idolization of Jay Gatsby. Firstly,...

Cohoon1 Shanna Cohoon Mr. Robinson English 1006r November 21st, 2012 Robert’s effect on the narrator “The Cathedral” is a short story written in 1963 by Raymond Carver. “The Cathedral” includes three characters: the narrator, the narrator’s wife, and a blind friend of the wife’s, Robert. Robert has an effect on the narrator from the very beginning but the effect changes as the story develops. At the beginning of the story, the narrator is very bitter about his wife’s blind friend. As the...

Raymond Carver uses a third person, Omniscient Narrator in his short story Neighbors. The narrator of Carver’s fast-passed, detail driven tale gives us an unprejudiced retelling of a story surrounding a married couple known as Bill and Arlene Miller. Just as the definition of an “Omniscient Narrator” is described to us via our textbook, the speaker in Neighbors “knows all, sees all, reports all, and when necessary,” as is the case here, “reveals the inner workings of the minds of any or all...

In his Novel In Cold Blood, Truman Capote uses a third person omniscient view to tell the story of the brutal murders of the Clutter family. The Clutter family of four was killed in their home in Kansas in 1959. Throughout the novel Capote uses the thoughts, feelings and actions of many characters to show their individual point of view. While using a third person view to narrate the events that took place, Capote is still able to influence the reader’s thoughts. He is able to change the...

Is nick a reliable narrator? How does his point of view colour the reality of the novel, and what facts or occurrences would he have vested interest in obscuring? Nick’s basic contempt for mankind emerges in what he says and thinks as well as in descriptions of others. The novel begins by Nick insisting that he was “inclined to reserve all judgments,” and then spends the remainder of the novel forming judgments of all the other characters. Tom is crude, Daisy is shallow, Jordan is dishonest,...

Cooper Turner English Holland 8/22/12 “An unreliable narrator can draw you into his or her worldview and perhaps even make you take sides before a writer reveals a broader perspective, one that he/she has missed or omitted. Even if a story is written so you doubt the narrator from the beginning, an unreliable narrator is still the one taking you through the story, so you hang on to their words. Perhaps a certain dialogue or an event will uncover details the narrator does not...

Howard’s End of Darkness: The Unconventional Narrator E. M. Forster’s Howards End is a tale told by a third person omniscient narrator, most of the time. Now and then there is a departure where our narrator identifies himself as the author of the work, and interjects commentary. This pattern emerges in the very first sentence of the work, where the narrator tells us “[o]ne might as well begin with Helen’s letter to her sister.” This immediately sets up the reader to consider the role of...

Why is the narrator an unreliable one? 1. He is not a reliable narrator because he is insane. Though he repeatedly states that he is sane, the reader suspects otherwise from his bizarre reasoning, behavior, and speech. ‘‘True—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?'' The reader realizes through Poe’s description of the narrator’s extreme nervousness that the protagonist has in fact descended into madness, as anxiety is a common symptom...

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," the story is told through the eyes of a limited omniscient third-person narrator. This style is very accommodating to the story because it allows the author perfect opportunities to express his points. The narrator can both describe what Goodman Brown is doing, and also evaluate and comment on the characters actions. This is a tool of the author to use the narrator to express his own personal beliefs on mankind. The narrator possesses the...

To what extend is the character Nick a reliable narrator in the book 'The Great Gatbsy'? Nick is a person with a number of contrasting allegiances within the book. For example he finds connections between himself and Gatsby, both serving in the War and that the both come from the ‘Mid-West’. However, Nick is also connected to the Buchannan’s: he is Daisy’s cousin, he comes from a wealthy background and he went to the same college as Tom Buchannan. Also, Nick says that his father told him to...

Alice Elliott Dark’s short story In the Gloaming captures Janet’s emotional turmoil using a selectively omniscient narrator. The effect of the third-person point of view allows the reader to sympathize with both Laird and Janet. However, because the narrator is strongly aligned with Janet, therefore in touch with her inner-thought and feelings, we can also view the story from the perspective of a mother. If Dark had written In the Gloaming in the first-person, the story would have lost its...

Rinconete y Cortadillo is narrated using various techniques that add interest, movement and variety to the story as a whole. At the beginning of the story all of the information about Rinconete and Cortadillo is given to us by the third-person narrator who is omniscient and descriptive. The boys are described in detail without us yet knowing who they are. They then start a conversation with each other and the next section is made up almost entirely of dialogue in which the narrator steps back...

Narrators in Film and Novel In this chapter, Stam introduces the different styles of narrators in Novel. According to him, they vary from the first-person report-narrator to the multiple letter writers of epistolary novels, to outside-observer narrators of reflexive novels like Don Quixote and Tom Jones, to the once intimate and impersonal narrator of Madame Bovary, to the “stream-of-consciousness” narrators, on to the intensely objective/subjective obsessional narrators of Robbe-Grillet....

Page 1 of 5 The drawing of narrative inferences by the reader is very important to interpret the work well. However, the author, while writing a story, can treat some incidents in detail and barely mention or even omit others. He may distort these incidents, may not observe chronological sequence, he can use messengers or flashbacks, and so on and so forth. The function of resorting to these varied narrative techniques is to emphasize or de-emphasize certain story-events, to interpret some and...

In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, Christopher seems incapable of telling the story but becomes a rather wonderful narrator. From the first few pages it is clear that Christopher struggles in reading others emotions. In addition to this, without the help of Siobhan, Christopher’s grammar would have made the narration of this novel disjointed and very repetitive. Although this occurs at times, it does not take away from the narration but rather adds to the...

Hannah Reed November 6, 2013 Exploring Markus Zusak’s use of Death as a Narrator in The Book Thief Word Count: 3,496 Abstract The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is narrated by Death who tells the story of Liesel Meminger. The reader can learn a lot about Death through his narration. Consequently this essay focuses on the question: what effect may Death’s narration in The Book Thief have on the reader and what does the reader learn about Death? Death is a metafictional...

The Out-of-Sync Narrator: Forster’s Ironic Critique of Economic Inequality Although she rarely uses personal pronouns to call attention to herself as a physical character, it is hard to ignore the narrative presence in Howards End that often seems overly harsh and judgmental toward the characters and events being described. If Forster were trying to impart a single moral truth or Victorian ideal on the reader, it would have made more sense to have the narrator’s voice more closely align with...

The Raft ”His face is so perfectly round that his smile looks like a gash in a basketball.” In this essay I’m going to focus on narrator, characterization, time aspect, symbols and the setting. The short story is written by Peter Orner in 2000. The short story is about a conversation between a 12, soon 13 years old boy, and his grandfather, Seymour, who commands a destroyer. It is about war and what a war can do to each individual soldier after killing another human being. “The Raft”...

Compare and contrast the narrators in Gulliver’s Travels and Frankenstein, the narrative methods, and the effects of these different ways of telling a story in Gulliver’s Travels and Frankenstein. Ravee Chen S2 English H Dr.Freisen 8 April 2010 Word count: 1491 Why do authors use different types of narrators? Jonathan Swift and Mary Shelly have both chosen a first-person narrator in their novels Gulliver’s Travels and Frankenstein. In...

Raymond’s ‘Little Things’ is a very short but interesting story that draws our attention to the problems couples may face in their marital life. It narrates an incidence of a quarrel between a husband and a wife that escalates to the point that it reaches the child and the couple is portrayed fighting for the possession of the baby. Now each parent is pulling on an arm causing him symbolic physical injury;”he felt the baby slipping out of his hands and he pulled back very hard”. From a...

Literary Devices Allegory A form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity, greed, or envy. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. Alliteration The repetition of the same sound at the...

Red from Green Maile Meloy’s short story “Red from Green” was first published in 2009. The short story is about the fifteen years old Sam Turner. Every year she goes on a float trip with her dad. This year Sam’s uncle and a client called Layton from her uncle’s law firm follow them on the trip. Layton compliments Sam’s white teeth and teaches her how to shoot with a gun he got with him on the trip. One night Sam gives Layton some massage because he has an old injury in his bag. When Sam’s dad...

The Rhetoric of Fiction Outline I. The author begins by pointing out that one of the obvious artificial devices has a method of going to the action and figure out what the writer meant. A. Throughout life, humans do not know the other person without reliable internal signs from a point of view. B. Points of view are always in books such as the Bible, using the word “he”. C. The next minor point below the major point II. The author insists that attitudes can change the voice of the reader...

Dukwane’s deliverance Being different is not always bad. It can as well mean to be capable of doing something others wouldn’t have done, to have a dream of becoming something that extends beyond your social environment. But it can be a complicated road to achieving this dream and you can meet different obstacles that need to be overcome. Sometimes deliverance is the answer. This is the situation presented in the short story “Dukwane’s deliverance”, written by Neil Ramsorrum, where the boy,...

Why does Harper Lee choose to tell the story from Scout’s point of view? - What Scout learns from her experiences and how she changes during the novel? - What effect Scout’s version of events has on the reader? Scout's narration serves as a convenient mechanism for readers to be innocent and detached from the racial conflict. Scout's voice "functions as the not-me which allows the rest of us—black and white, male and female—to find our relative position in society". To Kill A...

Paper 1 – The Virgin Suicides Throughout The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides uses several symbols and metaphors to describe and portray the feelings of the Lisbon family. Since the novel is narrated in first person it is important to interpret these symbols and metaphors in an attempt to gain inside meaning from a perspective other than the narrator’s. One of the symbols present throughout the novel is the physical appearance of the Lisbon house. Over the course of the novel, the Lisbon...

------------------------------------------------- Because It Is Running By The story “Because It Is Running By” is about the meeting between Wil and the girl Edie. Wil lives with his mother in the country where they have their B&B to make money. They live in the kitchen and rent the living room out. Wil’s mother hires the girl Edie over the summer to help with the B&B. This story is about the fact that people always have the dilemma whether to stay or leave. Wil decides to hang about...

Brother Dear Short story written by Bernice Friesen Pg. 25 “Brother Dear” features a young female narrator recounting her brother’s visit home from university and the family conflict that results. Read the first three paragraphs of the story. 1. With a partner: Read the first three paragraphs of the story. Identify whether the narrative is written in first, second, or third person. ____________________________________ Who is speaking?...

John Montague and Seamus Heaney are two of the most well known Irish poets who both deal with death in different and similar ways in a variety of their poems. Two poems that relate to the theme of death are The Locket by John Montague and The Strand at Lough Beg by Seamus Heaney. Neither title gives an obvious hint of the theme however The Strand at Lough Beg tells us the specific location of the poem making the events more real whilst The Locket suggests something romantic, quaint and...

The Happiest Days of Your Life Normally you would think, that parents would have the best interest and intensions for their children. And parents, who are very ambitious on behalf of their children, are often a good prerequisite for the kids to get really far in a prestigious world. But at the same time any parent must also be careful, that the excessive pressure of expectations and so early defined objectives do not take away the play of childhood and at a later stage the child’s wish to...

Throughout this passage from Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen utilises various narrative techniques. These include dialogic qualities (showing) and the use of third person narrative including focalisation and free indirect speech (telling). Both showing and telling work on different levels to further the reader’s interpretation of different characters and give meaning to the novel as a whole. The use of dialogue allows the reader to engage in conversations between characters, thus adding drama...

Oleksandra Sydorenko The Member of the Family By Muriel Spark Analysis The extract under consideration is taken from the story “A Member of the Family” by a famous award-winning Scottish novelist Muriel Spark. The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945" The fragment is about two women with the desperate mood Gwen and Trudy who spend their leisure time in a cheap lake town. Sometimes they argue and discuss the weather outdoor. The extract under...

Money for Love in the Rocking Horse Winner Everybody understands a simple truth ‘Money is not everything, but without money, everything is nothing,’ which means people need money to live, and enough to buy the basic goods one needs to survive, but everybody wants more money. More money means an easier life. The more money one has, the more money one wants, as is shown in the story, "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence. There is a little boy named Paul, the author emphasizes the battered...

Some may argue that narration does not affect the reader’s feelings on a story. But the way an author tells a story plays a key role in defining how the reader may feel about the characters, or what is taking place in the story you are reading. In the stories A Telephone Call and Miss Brill, narration is a major part in how the story affects the reader. Both stories are written using, as well as switching, between multiple persons. The authors both use exceedingly different narration techniques...

Sorry for the Loss Dealing with death and the loss of someone you love is possible one of the most difficult emotions to deal with, even though death is something that happens all the time, all over the world; death is actually the only certain thing in life. When someone we love die, we, as relatives, are put in a difficult situation in which we are expected to react a certain way. Unfortunately delivering the terrible news is sometimes almost as bad as getting them, it is never easy being...

Two Halves of the Same Song “My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America” (526). This is the first sentence in “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan spoken by the narrator’s point of view, Jing-mei, the daughter. The story was a direct reflection of love vs. rebellion with the mother and the daughter, presented in a humorous almost sounding sarcastic tone to show the two kinds of people in the story; the one the mother thought the daughter should be and the one the daughter thought...

“In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.” This quote by Benjamin Franklin perfectly fits the beginning of “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, which begins with the main character’s death then immediately goes into the tax remission she receives after her father’s death. This is a story about a woman, named Emily Grierson, and her relationships with the town of Jefferson, with a man she was in love with, Homer Barron, and with her father. For the seasoned readers of...

Fay Weldon- Weekend 1) Summary of the story Weekend is a short feministic story depicting traditional middle-class family, consisting of the mother- Martha and the father of three- Martin, going for the weekend to their cottage near Stonehenge, where they will meet their friends. On Friday, Martha is preparing some things, food and complaining (innerly) about her life. Martin wants her to be perfect, as she says “he likes women with small hips and big bosoms, that´s incredible.” She...

 Hello everybody, here im going to talk about Darl bundren, one of the sons of Mrs Bundren , and in my opinion he is the most important character in the novel as I lay dying. First of all its important to say that Darl highlights as a narrator among the other narrators of the story, because the way he speaks, his descriptions, and he rules as a kind of omniscient narrator because he knew things that were imposible to know for every character. We are going to speak about the following: First...

Write about some of the ways Fitzgerald tells the story in chapter 1 The chapter begins with Nick Carraway introducing himself as the narrator. Fitzgerald uses a first-person retrospective narrative, therefore we are given Nicks point of view throughout. The chapter begins with Nick remembering his father’s advice that “all people in this world haven’t had the advantages that [he’s] had” this tells the reader that the main theme of the novel is wealth. The use of the word “advantages” suggests...

There are always two sides to a story, but in the particular novel One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, there is only one perspective of the story being told. In Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, the setting takes place in a mental institution where patients are kept away from society, and are held back from showing their true identity. Throughout the novel the narrator is Chief Bromden. Chief pretends to be deaf and is unable to speak because of this people talk freely around him,...

In Nicholas Lezard's critique of McEwan's Atonement he states that, "…the novel is itself the act of atonement that Briony Tallis needs to perform; yet we are very much in the land of the unreliable narrator, where evasion and mendacity both shadow and undermine the story that is told." To atone is to seek forgiveness for one's sins. The novel is Briony's attempt to be forgiven for the crime she committed as a naïve girl of 13, during the summer of 1935 heat wave. The narrator delivers the story...

Throughout "The Great Gatsby" there are many different forms of narration and dialogue. Barbara Hochman takes these narrating voices into account in her essay, "Disembodied voices and narrating bodies in 'The Great Gatsby'." Throughout her writing she gives thorough explanations of each of the major characters dialogues and how they relate to one another, as well as focusing on one of the main characters and narrator of the novel, Nick. Dan Coleman also provides sufficient information on dealing...

The third-person omniscient is a narrative mode in which a story is presented by a narrator with an overarching point of view, seeing and knowing everything that happens within the world of the story, including what each of the characters is thinking and feeling.[1] It is the most common narrative mode found in sprawling, epic stories such as George Eliot's Middlemarch. The godlike all-knowing perspective of the third-person omniscient allows the narrator to tell the reader things that none...

JOINT ESSAY CONSTRUCTION INTRODUCTION: Mark Haddon’s novel, ‘The curious incident of the dog in the night-time’ (‘TCIDN’) contains many distinctive ideas that engage a reader. This unusual novel details the story of an autistic English boy who is isolated because he is socially challenged due to his condition. The author, although not autistic, masterfully capture what life is like from the point of view of an autistic sufferer who decides to write a mystery novel around the death of a dog....

Universidade de São Paulo Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas Leituras do Cânon II Lucas Amorim dos Santos N° USP: 7193600 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is undoubtedly Joyce’s attempt at creating a novel which could convey his ideas on a new kind of realism for prose fiction. This 1916 novel challenges some conventions of the Nineteenth century realism in Literature, specially by rejecting the exaggerated...

Jonathan Shamama Prof. Kimberley English 110 * An Unreliable Narrator * * The never-ending question about the novella “The Turn of the Screw” is if the governess actually sees the ghosts she claims to have seen. The article “Narrative Games: The Frame of The Turn of the Screw” provides support from experts on narrations, that the governess is not a reliable narrator. Henry James ends The Turn of the Screw with and ambiguous and a wide-open closing scene. The open-endedness leaves...

Point of view is a very important element of literature. In the book Literature Reading, Reacting, Writing point of view is described as, “the vantage point from which events are presented” (Kirszner and Mandell 300). The point of view of a story is simply the view of whoever’s telling it. Kirszner and Mandell inform readers that if the narrator can enter all the characters’ minds and always knows what is going on, then he is omniscient (303). Kirszner and Mandell also tell readers that if a...

Distinctive features of Realism and Modernism I. Ideological and philosophical differences ( How Realists and Modernists viewed man) R: 1. Man is a social animal (Aristhotel called it a political animal) 2. Alienation is conditioned by society 3. Reality is solid and objective. The world is palpable and identical 4. Interaction between man and environment (it determines his development) 5. There is always a sense of progress M: 1. Man is seem as ahistorical being...

English Commentary on Silas Marner The extract from the novel “ Silas Marner” written by George Eliot is unusually detailed and extremely descriptive. The novel “Silas Marner” is set in the country-side and it is set in the Victorian Era. This passage is the opening of a chapter and is about when Miss Nancy Lammeter and her father arrive at the Red House for the Squire’s New Year’s party. Eliot describes how extraordinarily beautiful Miss Nancy is, she describes her as bewitched, “Miss...

John Steinbeck's "The Murder" Throughout history, we've been told many stories and heard accounts of women who have been looked upon as their husbands' property and maltreated. Wives and female spouses have been violently abused and even killed in many cases, by their partners. John Steinbeck's "The Murder" encourages readers to react against the horrific abuse some woman face daily. Steinbeck's story shows Jim thinking of and treating Jelka like an animal and an inferior. The narrator and...

In “Sonny’s Blues” from 40 Short Stories, the narrator who is the older brother of Sonny, explains the lifestyle of Sonny and the troubles that he is facing in his life; addiction to drugs. The narrator later unfolds Sonny’s true personality and who he really is. The narrator first finds out in a local Harlem newspaper about his brother, Sonny, being caught dealing with drugs. At first, the narrator was in total denial but as time passed, he spoke to one of Sonny’s friends....

A Adam Bede In many American’s eyes, leisure is very important. People mix the relaxation and worry-free times of earlier generations. The speaker longs for the “Old Leisure” and the older ways of living (Eliot). The author’s techniques used in the passage from George Eliot’s Adam Bede display the upsetting aspects of the techniques and technologies of the present. In Adam Bede, the tones of eagerness and idleness rush through the sluggish leisure of life. The author’s detail...

"Poor Emily" Have you ever read a story and half way through you could tell how the ending was going to turn out by obvious clues given? Or have you ever read a story as to where you thought you knew what was going to happen next, then come to find out that you were completely on the wrong track? Point of view, which is how a story is told, can be expressed in four different categories of: first person, limited omniscient, omniscient, and objective. The point of view chosen can either...

Edina Klutsey English 102 02/21/13 Professor Robinson 1. From what point of view is Poe’s story told? Why is this point of view particularly effective for “The Tell-Tale Heart”? Poe’s story is told from the narrator’s point of view. This point of view is effective for the story because it gives the reader a sense of what was going on in the narrator’s mind. 2. Point to details in the story that identify its speaker as an unreliable narrator. In the beginning of the story, the narrator...

Close to the Water’s Edge. Close to the Water’s Edge is a short story written by the Irish writer Claire Keegan. The main character in the story is a boy who just turned 19. He is a student at the Harvard University or as he call it himself Cambridge, which is the town where Harvard University is situated. Through out the story he is staying at his mother’s penthouse apartment near the ocean. His birthday party is marked by a dinner at the fancy restaurant Leonardo’s. But the atmosphere at...

Brian Duenas Invisible Man Essay In the book of Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison the Narrator starts the second chapter by giving a description of how the undertaking to his hole began, starting at the college. The Narrators perception of the college shows him as an individual who is contained in an isolated region from the rest of the public community and has an unethical view of the rest of society that is not a part of the college. Through the use of diction, symbolism and details the...

 Short Story Analysis: Miss Brill In the story Miss Brill, details such as the fur Miss Brill wears and how she spends her Sunday evenings shed light into her characteristics and lifestyle. Her point of view shows her to be an unreliable narrator, reality being much different than it appears to Miss Brill. In the very first few paragraphs the reader begins to see the loneliness Miss Brill feels and how she responds to it. In getting ready to go out on Sunday evening, Miss Brill interacts...

Name: Date: Graded Assignment Unit Test, Part 2: Autobiographically Speaking Answer the questions below. When you are finished, submit this assignment to your teacher by the due date for full credit. (16 points) 1. What roles do the adults or older figures play in the lives of the various narrators? Select a figure from each of the four memoirs and write one sentence answering the question for each memoir. Answer: Older figures play in the lives of the various narrators by giving the...

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", is one of the best American short stories and is considered Ambrose Bierce's greatest work. First published in Bierce's short story collection "Tales of Soldiers and Civilians" in 1891, this story is about Peyton Farquhar, a southern farmer who is about to be hanged by the Union Army for trying to set the railroad bridge at Owl Creek on fire. While Farquhar is standing on the bridge with a rope around his neck, Bierce leads the reader to think that the rope...

Summary of Cathedral On the surface Raymond Carver’s, Cathedral is nothing more than a story of acceptance. The story takes place in New York around the 1980’s. The principle characters include: The Narrator who is a jealous husband, Robert a blind man who is kindhearted and the Narrator’s wife who is a lonely woman looking for attention. The story begins when an old friend of the Narrator’s wife, Robert, was coming to visit. The Narrator’s wife used to work for Robert when she lived in...

WORLD LITERATURE Reaction Paper Oedipus the King Greek tragedy is still relevant today because humanity never changes much over the centuries. While we may advance our machinery and technology, we have evolved very little. We are human beings and mankind is known to get himself into trouble when he becomes obsessed with something. Oedipus is no different from Tiger Woods in that he allows himself to be governed by desires. He has the power to get what he wants and never stops to think...

Characters’ Discourse and Narrator’s Discourse The creation of first and secondary narratives which can be used to explain the doubling of the story in Hemingway‟s short stories is a function also of the act of narration (“narrating instance” in Genette) and of the presence of a narrator who produces them. In fact, it is exactly the presence of a narrator who produces a narrative text that makes our analysis of narrative discourse possible. Or Genette the “narrating situation is” like any...

Roger Fleenor Seehafer English 11 February 7, 2013 Report 6: The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Perks of Being a Wallflower begins In Pittsburgh Pennsylvania with Charlie. Charlie is a freshman in high school with a horrific graphic past. He endured molestation from his aunt Helen who later died for what fault he thought was his. His best friend shot himself without telling him anything. And finally, he has difficulties adapting to high school life starting out as a wallflower....

“Sorry for the loss” Bullying is a serious issue, and it might have severe psychological consequences for the victims. Victims might ‘snap’ at the maximum point of tolerance and do something that they will later regret, such as murdering their bullies. The short story “Sorry for the loss” by Bridget Keehan deals with the psychological consequences of bullying and the consequences of victims snapping. The main character of the short story is Evie who is a catholic prison chaplain. Even though...

Three Shots by Hemingway - by Ernst Hemmingway The story takes place in a forest around sunset. The specific place and time period is not known to the reader. The main characters are presented in a story before this one, so their personalities and backgrounds are known more to the reader than the story reflects. Nick, his father and Uncle George are the only three persons presented, and it is told in Nicks point of view, however it is a omniscient narrator. The story begins with...

In the second part of Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, the reader gains a new perspective on the narrative as the story begins to switch between Mr. Rochester and Antoinette’s viewpoints. Through variations in diction and syntax, Rhys distinguishes between Rochester and Antoinette’s voices in “Part Two” of the novel. The second part of the novel begins in Mr. Rochester’s point of view. There is a noticeable deviation in diction and syntax in Mr. Rochester’s voice from Antoinette’s earlier...

Talk Less, Say More: A Rhetorical Analysis of A Good Man Is Hard To Find Flannery O’Connor establishes her style of language from the first sentence. Her voice is apparent throughout the entire story that in turn plays a factor in the delivery of the message. She keeps it real and only says enough to give the reader a mental picture of the situation with usually only providing a short summary leaving a lot of room for imagination. A Good Man Is Hard To Find is full of irony about going to the...

Frankenstein: Methods and Techniques: Structure & Narrative Form From Top Notes – Pattinson & Stanners Epistolatory Narrative Form “Frankenstein” is written in an epistolary narrative form that was popular at the time in which it was written. The original publication was presented in three volumes and this emphasised the Chinese box structure of the story within a story within a story. This structural device adds a great deal to its stark drama as well as ensuring greater reader...

 The Virgin Suicides and the Writing Self Usually our voice for telling a story is our own writing self. A person that understands the situation at hand and speaks in a manner relevant to the situation. We don't normally create a separate narrator to make our writing more interesting. We simply write our thoughts and opinions to convey our ideas. But Jeffery Eugenides writing the Virgin Suicides brought out a separate part of himself to narrate for him. An entirely fabricated group to speak...

Narration (1) The narrator • ►Who speaks? • The narrator as a link between the author and the reader. Author Narrator Reader Reality Fiction Reality The complete narrative chain Real author Implied Narrator Narratee Implied Real author reader reader Reality Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Reality Types of narration • 3 ways to analyse narration: – Relationship narrator ↔ story – Relationship narrator ↔ characters – Relationship narrator ↔ time scheme of...

“The point of using an unreliable narrator is indeed to reveal an interesting gap between appearance and reality, and to show how human beings distort or conceal the latter." David Lodge, in the 1993 collection of short stories "The Art of Fiction: Illustrated From Classic and Modern Texts". The use of 3rd person limited subjective naïve narrator amplifies the themes of this ironic novel; innocence and ignorance, war and prejudice . Many literary techniques are used in this book highlight the...

Analysis Of Philippine Literature Submitted To: Prof. Jucaban Submitted By: Maureen L. Gallano AB-2B Sonia by Francisco Icasiano Analysis of Sonia Sonia is a sort story describing the author's attempts to cope with the sudden and early death of his favorite daughter and his wish to somehow channel his grief and pain to improve his creativity and art. He begins by claiming pain can be beautiful as long as the individual is able to rise above the depression and hopes his tale...

“Bittersweet”: A Summary/Central/Character/Conflict/P.O.V./ Setting/Language/Tone Analysis in Alice Walker’s “To Hell With Dying” Alice Walker’s “To Hell With Dying” is a short story about the close encounters the protagonist, Mr. Sweet, faces with death and the impact he leaves on the friends that love him unconditionally. Mr. Sweet is a diabetic, alcoholic guitar player that lives down the road from the narrator and her family. He is dearly loved by the family and regularly comes to...

Robert Coover’s “The Babysitter” tells the story of a single evening through the point of view of different characters, shifting voices every paragraph. Their stories are interconnected and overlapping to establish the events taken place that night: a babysitter takes care of the three children while their parents, the Tuckers, attend a friend’s party. Coover laces the evening’s events with the imagination of the characters, such as Harry Tucker’s lustful fantasies of the babysitter, Mark and...

Katherine Mansfield close reading how to analyse prose fiction Close reading is the most important skill you need for any form of literary studies. It means paying especially close attention to what is printed on the page. It is a much more subtle and complex process than the term might suggest. Close reading means not only reading and understanding the meanings of the individual printed words; it also involves being sensitive to all the subtle uses of language in the hands of skilled...

Explore the uses and effects of mixed narrative in Anthills of the Savannah By Emmanuel Sunil Anthills of the Savannah is set in the fictitious West African country of Kangan, a country which has been overrun with political instability ever since becoming an independent state from British rule. The novel centers on the lives of three civil servants, Christopher Oriko, Ikem Osodi and Beatrice Naynibuife, and all three serve three separate narrative voices in the novel, each sharing his or her...

Characters 1. a) Lispeth is a young girl who was left at a mission as a baby in time of famine. She grows up, finds an Englishman suffering from fever on the road, and takes him to the mission, announcing that she will take care of him and then marry him. He flirts with her and then he leaves her alone. At the end she finds that he hasn’t intention of marrying her. b) The Chaplain’s wife is the person who takes care as a mother of Lispeth when her parents die. She lies Lispeth when she...

The Cask of Amontillado The Cask of Amontanillo was particular hard for me to understand. Even though I reread it a couple of times, Poe’s writing got confusing to me. Narration and Point of View starting on page 161, helped me understand that the narrator was very aware of the voice in the story, but still, at the end of the reading, I was not as clear about the story. However, as far as I understood, Montresor holds a high social position but not as a nice positive one. I don’t believe...

This passage recounts the unnamed protagonist’s experience of taking a taxi at night and as the story progresses and tension steadily rises, conveys the protagonist’s unease and growing fear of the taxi driver. Ultimately, for the reader, this ends with the realization that the paranoia is mutual and shared by the driver himself. Although the story is told from the point of view of an omniscient third person narrator, for the majority of the passage, the narrator confines himself to recounting...

A Gap of Sky How do you discover your own identity and the purpose of your existence in a society, where the meaning is not clear, and where life at times seems chaotic and labyrinthine? This search for existential answers is an essential and recurring theme in Anna Hope’s short story A Gap of Sky from 2008, which takes place in the middle of a busy metropolis. Through postmodernist use of language and narrative technique Anna Hope conveys these themes of individualism and existentialism....

In this extract, McCarthy conveys the anticlimax of the protagonist and his son’s arrival at the “Cold. Desolate. Birdless.” environment of the beach. McCarthy juxtaposes the bleakness of the landscape with the boy’s optimism in order to highlight the boy’s inherent goodness. McCarthy tells the story using narrative voice in this section of the text. He contrasts the third person extradiegetic narrator with the man’s interior monologue in order to convey multiple perspectives to the reader....