“Stranger than Fiction and Café Society are completely different texts. They have nothing in common.” Stranger than Fiction is a film directed by Marc Foster about a man named Harold Crick who finds himself being narrated by a voice only he can hear and narrates things that happen in his life before they even happen. Café Society is a short story by Marion Halligan is a short story about a woman in a café who writes numerous scenarios that she imagines to practice story writing methods and ideas. Ideas, Intended Audience and Communication Techniques can both be compared between the two texts. Despite the two texts being different as one is a film and one is a short story, they both share similarities which makes the comment above incorrect as they are not completely different.
Though O’Brien is the narrator his stories come from the views and experiences of others. “The Things They Carried” also includes symbol, good organization, and excessive use of fantasy, all of which qualify it as a
Kristapher Guillen Mrs. Trammell Ap Language & Composition January 30 2013 The Juxtaposition of the King's men Within the famed novel, All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren uses juxtaposition in order to convey one of the novel's most prominent themes. Throughout All The King’s Men, there is a constant struggle between innocence and awareness. For a reader to fully understand the novel one must acknowledge this struggle, for it is integral to the transformations of several major characters and the development of the novel itself. In the book, there are many cases where ignorance does prove to be bliss. However, there are also quite a few instances where awareness helps to empower a character.
The events may be arranged chronologically or nonchronologically and may be factual, fictional, or a blend of the two. (262) Together with narrative, form is another technique often used to narrate so as to attract audiences’ attention. Just as William H. Phillips says: Structure, which some scholars and theorists call form, refers to the parts of a text and their arrangement. In a fictional film, the selection and order of events help viewers comprehend the story and strongly influence how they respond…Fictional structure (characters, goals, and conflicts); some functions of beginnings, middles, endings; combination of different brief stories (plotlines) into a larger, more complex story. (264) Classical narrative form is commonly known as linear narrative which refers to stories told in a single line with logical order and ends with an assured conclusion, usually seen in traditional Hollywood films.
Specific topics of interest include the point of view of the narrator, how this influences the way we perceive the stories, and why the authors chose these ways of telling their stories. A good way to begin is by considering the general effects of the point of view of the narration on literature. Ignoring the very rare second person point of view, novels are either first or third person. First person viewpoints tell the story as the lead character sees it. This may introduce a question of reliability, since their perception of reality may be tainted or their knowledge may be limited.
Question before the Procession Shirley Jackson’s use of literary techniques in The Lottery is a true work of genius. She strategically uses irony in many places such as the story’s title, the setting an even in certain character’s personality traits. Another important literary technique used by Jackson is symbolism. The black box and the story’s title seem to create a range of associations outside themselves such as the importance of questioning irrational traditions and the unexpected nature of death. With the use of these two literary techniques, (irony and Symbolism) Shirley Jackson is able to emphasize important dramatic events within the plot.
Symbolism is a huge part of how authors communicate with readers throughout a novel. In both works the authors, Albert Camus and Franz Kafka both use two devices to portray the theme of isolation, which is so strong in these novels. Both devices are used purposely to single handedly point out what the author is hoping to show the reader. Though their goals are similar, these devices are used in different ways, because if they weren't, well, the authors wouldn't have their well known distinct ways of writing. One of the many similarities that Albert Camus and Franz Kafka show in their novels are the protagonists (In "The Stranger" who is Mersault and "The Metamorphosis" who is Gregor).
You can’t write a book if you’ve never read a book. And if you’ve read five books and you try to write a book, your book will mainly encompass the themes and the context of the five books you’ve read. Bun B, rapper, interviewed in The Believer. All writers stand on the shoulders of other writers. All writers use unoriginal research.
There are a lot of similarities in characteristics and in the events they went through, but there are also the differences, like age and gender, and their roles in the plot. Overall, though, we know that these are both historical characters which share a lot in
According to Edmund Crispin, a novel or any other literary work that is consider science fiction, “is one that presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order, such as humanity, up to the time of writing, has not in actual fact experienced” (qtd in Wilson). While Groff defines it as a group of stories that plays with scientific facts in an non logical sense “thus carried beyond the realm of the immediately possible in an effort to see how much fun the author and reader can have