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.
Since “The Things They Carried” is a collection of short stories, it automatically has multiple meanings. For some the meaning may simply be viewed as a novel of one’s life during the Vietnam War, but it is in fact much more than that. This novel explores such topics as: love, war, relationships, and the reality of the things that not only the characters but we too carry. These meanings are not direct but after reading can be discovered. The next thing that qualifies this book as a classic is the fact that it uses effective, unique style appropriate to the purpose and content.
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.
Barton Fink is an American movie released in 1991, written and directed by Coen brothers. The movie starred John Turturro, John Goodman, Michael Lerner, Judy Davis and John Mahoney. The movie was set in 1941 and John Turturro was in the title role and he played a young play writer in New York and he has been hired to write scripts for a movie studio in Hollywood. The other character was John Goodman “Charlie”, who acted as a salesman who lived as a neighbor of John Turturro. The film Barton Fink is about the pretentious and secluded world in which the artist lives.
“A sad sympathy filled her eyes. Sharada lowered her knife”. Her personality appears to take a radical turn, though it is not documented through a conversation. Due to the fact that the authentic character of Sharada is exposed mainly through her psychological and inner expansion, leaving the audience to fill in several facets of the story in its maturation, this story can not only be placed under the Poe genre of short stories but it can also be set in the category of the “ideal short story” stories within the Poe
It means that camera is pen and the director is the author of the film. Film itself is an expression. Film is not just entertainments; it is the thoughts of director, although it is abstract. The films are unique and there are significant and character in the films. Moreover, Francois Truffaut emphasized on mise-en-scene of a film.
After having read two stories written by the poet and author Edgar Allen Poe and two stories written by the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, one can compare the two men and truthfully claim that they have many more differences than similarities. Although they had similarities in their lifestyles, such as depression and drug use, their writing styles were vastly opposite with only few similarities noticeable. To compare their writing styles, one most first read a variety of stories written by each author, and then look at the moods of each, the vocabulary used, and the techniques used to capture the reader’s attention. Edgar Allen Poe was thought by most as the inventor of detective stories and fiction. From him, a whole branch of literature was developed, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories of Sherlock Holmes.
You don’t talk about fight club The short story “Fight Club” uses many different themes to portray what the narrator of the story is telling. The author, Chuck Palahniuk wrote this story as a fictional narrative and is written using a technique called in medias res where the reader is being put right into the middle of the story. While it is clear the story is being told from the perspective of one person, it is never made clear what the identity of the narrator is. The narrator is one of the main characters in the story along with another man named Tyler who would be considered the protagonist or main character. The narrator and Tyler are friends and it is between the two of them that the idea of Fight Club is invented.
Kafkaesque elements often appear in existential works, but the term has transcended the literary realm to apply to real-life occurrences and situations that are incomprehensibly complex, bizarre, or illogical. Franz Kafka created fictional worlds in which characters try to make sense of a nightmarish world.Kafka’s writing style seems simple and straightforward, but it’s full of philosophizing about the absurdity of life. It’s not easy to understand one of his stories with only one reading. The term “Kafkaesque” reefers to the style in which he wrote and is seen by many as a synonym for “surreal.” His story’s are
While most works of fiction follow a prescribed plot, exploring each idea on a chronological path, Virginia Woolf's "The Mark on the Wall" articulates, instead of action, an internal monologue. Human thought is not linear; in moments of introspection we jump from topic to topic, follow connections ignited by memory, logic or external input. Some critics call this essay a work of fancy, while others consider it a demonstration of control. The question of whether it is a work of subjectivism or skepticism is also a prominent debate. I prefer to view "The Mark on the Wall" as an analysis of the patterns of human thought - including both subjectivist thought and skepticist thought - distinguishing the chaos of introspection from organized writing.