One of the numerous examples was David McCullough's biography of Harry Truman and Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist. Of course these books are two different text and you wouldn't read them the same way. The biography has text which is made for you to believe every word. If David decide to put false statements about Harry Truman, not only would his biography be invalid; it would also lose its genre as a biography. While in Dickens's Oliver Twist we know that what were reading isn't entirely true.
Addie's genuine character as a living human will be a mystery; a few may view her as someone who was playing with the devil and others might see her as someone with admiration because she was one to believe that actions speak louder than words. The different characters throughout the novel and the difficulty stream-of-consciousness method all work together to create a novel that is open-ended and a matter of understanding. There is no intent truth to the narrative any more than there is any ideal certainty to the events that happen in it. The way that Faulkner uses the multiple narrators serves the purpose of trying to figure out what is the truth of these events that took place throughout the story and this is what makes this novel such a success. Faulkner desires to enchant his audience and grasp their mind.
O'Brien creates an intentional paradox for his readers when he writes the violent, but grabbing story of Rat Kiley and then at the end of the story, tells the reader that the characters and events of the story did not happen just as he described them, but that they happened in a totally different way to other people. But he insists that the story is true. With this, O'Brien challenges the reader to discover the truth of the event. O'Brien gets the reader to figure out what fiction of this book is actually worth. Firstly, did O'Brien confuse the reader when he said that the events did not happen after the reader became involved in those events?
In the attempt to capture truth in writing, writers and readers alike are cognisant of the artifice that occurs in the process of writing. This oxymoron; that truth and authenticity can result from artifice is the basis of the conflict that occurs between concepts of reality, truth and literary realism. The nature of fiction itself presents tension between truth and artifice: writers abide by the facets of literary realism, which has a “fidelity to the truth” (M.H. Abrams), and must create artifices to deliver meaning and create truth, utilising techniques of fiction such as metaphor, figures, imagery and dialogue which aren’t necessarily true. In order to create a sense of authenticity, Nam Le abides by verisimilitude in his short stories “Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice” and “Tehran Calling” in his collection The Boat.
Abraham Lincoln once said, “I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.” This quote suggests or can be interpreted as: that a person may perhaps do something illogical and unreasonable because of mixed feelings, jealousy, or insecurity and deeply regret it later on. I agree with Abraham Lincoln as his quote’s interpretations can be demonstrated throughout the events that partake in the novels A Separate Piece by John Knowles or the book The Time Machine by H.G. Wells through the use of the literary elements symbolism and characterization. ghghs In the novel A Separate Piece Gene is the novel’s narrator, and he tells the story as a flashback, thinking back on his days at the Devon School. He and is roommate/best
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.
Andrés Martinez AP Lang Michels October 30th, 2014 Genre of In Cold Blood In cold blood is said to be a nonfiction novel in the standards of most library's, but many people out there disagree with this decision and say it is more of a fiction novel. The arguement is solely based on the stylistic choices Capote used in order to engage reaaders into this novel. Many people believe that Capote may have altered the original events that actually happened in order to just right a better novel. There is evidence in both sides, but nonfiction or fiction, is veru hard to tell. Capote's extensive knowkedge of Dick and Perry seem to be fictional because there are so many detail about their past that no one would know about.
For example, Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle, was not primarily conversational, and thus would not benefit as much from being orally told like Harriet Beecher Stowe’s The Ghost in the Mill or Samuel Clemens’s Cannibalism in the Cars. Where Irving takes the reader on a more personal creative literary journey – void of a separate storyteller though filled with imagery and vivid landscapes allowing the reader to make their own determinations – Stowe allows for a dialect advantageous of being acted aloud. Upon reading The Ghost in the Mill, you want to actually hear Sam Lawson tell the story, to know every aspect of the story and every word spoken by the characters in exactly the way he tells it, just like the children have learned to. Through stories like Stowe’s, written using dialect heavy in Southern slave culture, the need for a storyteller becomes more apparent, aiding in understanding the story’s tone. Likewise, in Clemens’s Cannibalism in the Cars, the written description only serves for so many creative possibilities; it is the storyteller that really brings the story to life.
‘Why is Sixty Lights worthy of critical study and inclusion on the HSC Prescriptions List for module B- Critical Study of Text?’ The novel Sixty Lights has been included on the HSC Prescriptions List for Module B because it is worthy for critical study as it is a diverse piece of literature covering significant topics that have been ignored in the modern world. We enter the lyrical and image-laden world of Sixty Lights. It’s a tale, resplendent in colour and imagery, set across two worlds - the constrained and stilted world of Victorian England, and the chaotic danger and abandon of India. Gail Jones creates literature, like Shakespeare, but in this particular piece explores the significance behind photographs and what they represent.
What is bullshit? This is a neither simple question that many in today’s world don’t exactly have a clear answer to nor understanding of. In the published book, “On Bullshit” by Frankfurt, we are provided with a definition and explanation to what exactly bullshit is. The interpretation of bullshit drawn from the novel can be said to be a misrepresentation of what is to be true. Because of bullshit being a misrepresentation of the truth; it has been repeatedly mistaken or confused with the act of lying.