Explain, using details from the story. 7. What is the purpose of Alex's "dreams" or delusions? How does their function in Alex's life change? 8.
In what ways could we simplify the problem? 6. What modules will we need to build? 7. What are the key relationships in the problem?
What does each part do for the reader? What is the writer trying to accomplish? 6. What does each part say? What is the content.
How do you know what you know? (evidence) | | |b. Who are you to the subject? (perspective) |10/7 | |c. How is this event connected to other events?
Second Body Paragraph (Historical Context)—Topic Sentence (How did the time period the author lived in influence his work?). Discuss the elements presented in Short Stories for Students under “Historical Context” and Gale Contextual Encyclopedia under “Works in Biographical and Historical Context.” Third (Themes)—You need a topic sentence that explains the themes (2-3) in your work. [Remember that theme must be a statement/complete sentence.] What is the author trying to communicate about the topic? What point is he/she trying to make?
2. Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War opens with a long digression on the early history of Greece. Why do you think Thucydides includes this? Can you extract any themes that might be relevant to the work as a whole? How does this introduction compare to the way Herodotus begins his history of the Persian Wars?
There is a famous saying that: “Life follows a circular path. That is why history repeats itself”. This idea can be seen especially in Khaled Hosseini’s first book, “The Kite Runner”, a beautiful yet devastating story of love, betrayal and redemption. The narrative’s cycle takes place over three generations: Baba and Ali’s generation, Amir and Hassan’s, and Sohrab’s. Circularity is one of the core concepts in the novel and it is also used by Hosseni as a narrative technique.
English 122 Short Stories Text: “A Drowning” p. 160- 162 Read “A Drowning” by Mark Ferguson 1. What is the impact of the opening line of the story? 2. What inferences about the narrator did you draw based on the information you were given? 3.
Finally it will show how Carpentier’s story complements the postcolonial theory. "Like the Night" by Carpentier uses first-person narration. The five-part story is narrated by an anonymous "I" that misleads us into reading it as one continuous tale related by a stable narrator. In fact, as we get into it, there are historical cues that situate us in radically different contexts. A narrator about to go off to the Trojan War gives way to a Spaniard ready to embark for the Americas, and on to an
How can you sustain or repeat again what you might have found intuitively? Do you even know what you did or how you did it? The technique, however, will help you find a character, which in turn informs how you approach the text/script/written word. How do you bring the dialogue alive? How do you know what choices to make?