Author O’Brian also confuses the reader by writing his novel as if everything that was told took place in the real world. For example, just by saying “this is true” (64) doesn’t always make it true. O’Brian leaves it up to the reader to distinct what they see the story as: reality or fiction. It is said that “a true war story… makes the stomach believe” (74). Author and character O’Brian tell the story in such a way to make it believable that the two different people are really the same person.
Joe admits he ‘construed’ Clarissa’s narrative but he does not explain how. This absence of explanation is predominantly strange, bearing in mind that a lot of narrative in earlier chapters concerned itself with metafiction. As readers we have to guess how this has been constructed. The impression that Joe has used Clarissa’s diary to create the narrative in the chapter is stood out by the list of events that occur in it. These events appear to be unexpected and unconnected to the other characters, so it deducts from the suspense.
Nader Aboelnazar English 113 F1 Professor: Vivian Zenari March 3, 2009 Essay 3: Critical Article Student ID: 1207781 990 words An Analysis of “Truth, Wonder, and Exemplarity” Aphra Behn’s novel Oroonoko has been critiqued countless numbers of times. Whether Oroonoko, the main character, is based on a real person or not has overwhelmed students, teachers, and critics. One of the many critics that have attempted to analyze and interpret Behn’s novel is Vernon Guy Dickson. His peer-reviewed article “Truth, Wonder, and Exemplarity” addresses the text of Oroonoko directly and substantially by focusing on the “central issue whether [Oroonoko] is factual or fabricated.” Vernon Guy Dickson provides the critical readers with evidence supporting both possibilities and it is left to the reader take a side. Vernon Guy Dickson in his article attempts to illustrate to the readers that it is difficult to obtain a conclusion whether the novel is factual or fabricated.
Using Formalism to interpret cannot be effective because the readers need to understand the background information. Without the background, the story becomes comparable to a pound cake with no toppings, bland and uninviting. Formalism ignores the cultural context, the author intentions, and how the story affects the reader personally. Formalism by definition ignores specifics such as what the author’s intentions were in the story. Fast’s intentions turn out to be an attempt to describe human nature.
Resultantly, she becomes an outcast from society, and this allows her to think for herself and remain an individual, avoiding the dreadful trap of hypocrisy and lies that emerge from hidden sin. Throughout Hawthorne’s literary works, members of society assume their community’s beliefs and values in the public eye, yet utilize entirely deviating, individual moral codes in privacy. Nathaniel Hawthorne reveals this hypocritical aspect
Time could not support the demands that Gatsby was making. Gatsby catching the clock and his apology symbolizes the sensitivity of his plan and how necessarily his methods were. Fitzgerald uses symbols in The Great Gatsby to show different ideas and events throughout the book. Each symbol used throughout the novel has its own meaning to a specific idea or situation between characters. Symbols are very important in literature and they help add meaning to certain text or objects within the piece of writing.
By calling into question the truth of his stories, he disorients readers who are expecting to read a standard fiction, where the events are undoubtably false. He also shows readers why reinventing a story may be more important than telling the story just as it is remembered. Norman Bowker disapproves of O’Brien’s first attempt to describe a horrific battle, and, therefore, O’Brien feels the need to rewrite the story. Essentially, O’Brien must remember the event in a new way that makes the story more real for Bowker and other readers. Finally, O’Brien explains to readers why stories must be told, even with the risk telling the story the “wrong” way.
“The Great Gatsby” is an unusual novel and the peculiar first chapter forms a delicate frame for the rest of the story through Fitzgerald’s narrative style. Chapter 1 carefully introduces various themes and characters that are essential to Nick Carraway’s tale. Nick’s role as narrator defines the way in which the story is told. The lack of an omniscient narrator gives us a partial view of events: despite Nick claiming to be “inclined to reserve all judgements”, his bias towards or against certain characters manifests itself over the course of the chapter: for example, Tom is described as having “arrogant eyes” and a “cruel body”; these features themselves are not physical representatives of those characteristics, but they serve to express Nick’s impression of Tom in his narrative. Nick’s active role in “The Great Gatsby” similarly only allows the reader to witness and to know what Nick witnesses and knows.
Sexual and Racial Tension in Larsen’s Passing Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield are the two main characters in Nella Larsen’s Passing. We do not learn about the both of them by seeing or hearing the story from a neutral point of view. Rather, we are subject to envision the entire novel from behind the eyes of only one of these characters, Irene. At first, forcing the reader to suspend themselves in only one of these two complex minds may seem like a biased action on the part of the author. However, as we read further into the book, we soon discover that the limited third-person view is necessary to bring both of these figures to life.
When reading a work, the “common” reader has already made the decision to not “collaborate” with the author’s ideas, and chooses not to leave their “mark” on the work as they overlook the opportunity to perform a deeper analysis of the main ideas. Due to the “common” reader’s inability to conceptualize the deeper meanings of certain ideas, he or she is therefore unable to comprehend all of the concepts the author intended to convey to readers. The “common” reader reads Percy’s essay "The Loss of the Creature" and extracts only the main ideas of the work, as they miss out on a “deeper” understanding of the concepts given by Percy. The “common” reader would most likely read each paragraph as a boring collection of meaningless statements, as they put strong emphasis on noting the simple ideas of a topic, instead of analyzing the main ideas and making comprehension of these concepts the main priority. Percy introduces an example that effectively allows different types of readers to be immediately distinguished based on how they choose to perceive certain