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.
* A description of the intended audience. B. The rhetorical précis is an effective note taking strategy because * It answers the basic who, what, where, when, how, why, and to whom about a piece of writing. It also summarizes the content and analyzes the circumstances leading up to and informing a piece of writing. It clarifies how someone else chose to say something, in a particular way, for some purpose, to certain other people.
He is not just one character among several, it is through his eyes and ears that we form our opinions of the other characters making him unreliable. Often, readers of this novel confuse Nick's stance towards those characters and the world he describes with those of F. Scott Fitzgerald's because the fictional
The Things They Carried In The Things They carried, a novel about several war stories, Tim O’Brian refers to two different kinds of truths. One of these truths is called happening truth, which he describes as not always being able to get the point across. The second truth is the story truth. This truth is able to place an assortment of images into the reader’s head which make them feel almost exactly what the character in the story is going through. By telling the happening truth, the author is only able to describe to the readers what the character is going through and the majority of the time just telling a story does not make the readers understand what the characters are feeling at that moment.
Commentary The Loom The passage taken from The Loom by R. L. Sasaki opens with a quote “ I gave up” said Jo”. From this short sentence we are able to guess many things about the structure of the novel; firstly that it is a third person narrative and secondly that it was written in the past tense. The quote itself “ I give up” creates an effect on the reader; the short sentence has a dramatic effect as it is ambiguous. What is the character giving up? It also brings into play, named Jo, who is the character?
How does Browning tell the story in Porphyria’s Lover? Browning uses a dramatic monologue in order to tell the story in Porphyria’s lover. Browning’s dramatic monologues have to fit a certain criteria, these include; sub text, the narrator doesn’t say specifically what he/she’s done so the audience has to think to find out what’s happened; the audience is silent, the audience is there to listen and not to comment; the third is that the narrator is defensive or a case maker. The structure of Porphyria’s lover is one long stanza; this is shown through the time and sequence, setting, characterisation, point of view and ideology. The structure shows time and sequence as it’s quite a medium length poem, because of this it shows just how long the story takes place in.
The light associated with an image in each chapter is an ‘entirely new vision’ for Lucy, which sheds light on her world. ‘Knowledge comes only in flashes’ is the epigraph for part two also being enforced again in the epigraph for part one. The language of the novel is often as dense as poetry and contains highly original and interesting figures of speech; many of these are associated with the light and dark imagery. There are many examples throughout the novel but 1 universal language feature is similes. Similes are the most common figures of speech used in the novel; ‘…a hat which curved around her face like a materialising halo’.
People usually have these inner thoughts to themselves, and they wonder if anyone else thinks like this, assuming if you are the only one. Sherry Turkle takes note of that and covers all the questions for why we feel this way when thinking about any object. Basically, from Sherry Turkle’s The Secret Power of Things We Hold Dear, I can infer what an object-to-think-with actually means. It is anything that you sense (i.e. see, feel, smell, taste, and hear) that when your mind dwells on this specific thing, the thoughts are not even remotely related to the ones of another person.
Compare and contrast ways in which your three chosen writers create a sense of voice, and the effects they achieve through their use of voice ‘None of these characters […] tells the full story’ ,this statement from Bennett’s introduction to Talking Heads can also be applied to ‘The Pardoner’s Tale’ and ‘The Remains of The Day’; in all three, the use of the first person means that the tale is often centralised around the views and perspectives of the narrator. It is often left to the reader or audience to interpret the information which the narrators have either consciously or unconsciously omitted. The term ‘teller’, in fact, is ambiguous; it could be said that the fictional narrator of the tale is the teller. However it could also be argued
Although well known for his creative non-fictional writing, Norman Mailer has his share of fictional writing. He is famous for his journalistic way of writing and being the innovator of the genre called New Journalism. The collection of writings labeled literary journalism forms an explicitly recognizable case of a "blurred genre." Literary journalists are known to consciously combine the techniques and styles of fiction writing and journalism into the genre we call literary journalism. Mailer is one of the few acknowledged members of this group who went over from the other side, a novelist-turned-journalist.