Characters by role in the narrative structure

presenting, or may try to cross examine the topic with a similar academic discipline that was brought up in the article. In “Narrative Coyotes: Migration and Narrative Voice in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo” written by Heather Alumbaugh, the author provided and supported her theory that she stimulated from Sandra Cisneros’s novel, “Carmelo.” “Narrative Coyotes: Migration and Narrative Voice in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo” by Heather Alumbaugh was published by Oxford University Press on behalf of…

Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried presents an essentially contradictory narrative premise. Moreover, O’Brien presents himself as the protagonist, narrator, and author of the collection while declaring these roles mutually exclusive. Such oppositions force the reader to employ a synthetic and self-referential analysis to comprehend the internally oppositional narrative. In doing so, one finds that O’Brien’s systematic blurring of definitions accentuates his experiential perspective, rather…

addresses some changes to meet the ‘requirement’ of the new form of entertainment in order to grab the spectator’s attention. This paper will compare the narrative configuration of the novel and the film, and will show how the differences between the two affect the themes of the story. Both the novel and the film follow the chronological structure, starting with Herbert Greenleaf asking Tom to convince his son Dickie to come back to the states from Italy, followed by Tom’s Dickie’s, and…

point to the continuing presence of the past in American society. Louise Erdrich critically examine the consequences of trauma and thematize the family’s influential role in identity formation in her novels Tracks(1988) and The Plague of Doves(2008) .The paper presents the pattern of idea of how transgenerational trauma haunts the characters and leads them on to the way of isolation. The novels reveal…

Faces, is a narrative pattern, widely found in human myths, legends, and religious fables, in which the hero is “called to an adventure, crosses the threshold to an unknown world to endure tests and trials, and usually returns with a boon that benefits his fellows” (qtd. Palumbo 333). Closer examination of this model, which generally confines women to one or a blend of two roles: goddess or temptress, reveals exclusion of women not only from a wider degree of involvement in the narrative,…

Narrative self: Paul Ricoeur When the self is constructed through narrative or story then the focus of human existence is laid upon their phenomenal experiences. It brings about a sense of dramatisation and operation of “emplotment” which configures the diverse events and actions of human lives and turn it into a meaningful whole. The concept of self and identity is fashioned by adaptation of plots from cultural stock of stories and myths. In psychological, psychoanalytical and humanistic…

In the 1990’s where the film industry came to dominance, actors were cast to portray roles of racial minority characters conspicuously and blatantly. The concept of white washing, orientalism or cultural appropriation were not prompted into the minds of directors, actors, movie-goers or virtually anyone of the time yet. With this, there was barely or if any characters of colour being casted for roles that they were the basis of. This notion has since continued onto contemporary society today,…

Characterisation Characterisation is a literary device that is used in literature to introduce and explain the details about a certain character in a story. In book The Great Gatsby, the main characterisation revolves around the social status of the characters. The major character of the book, Jay Gatsby, is evidently wealthy, but he does not come from or belong to the upper stratum of the society. The author used the dialogue and appearance of Gatsby to reflect on his wealth and social statues…

main elements of fantastical narratives as described by Russian scholar and folklorist Vladimir Propp in his breakthrough work, Morphology of the Folktale, which states that there is a sequence of 31 functions — certain actions that a character fulfills in order to advance the plot towards the “happy ending” — that can be applied to any fairy tale narrative in any medium: literature, film, theatre, etc. Although at first glance, the Dark Crystal’s familiar fantasy narrative may seem like a…

Dijik (2007) states that despite discourse and racism not being popular combinations for discussion, text plays a ‘vital role in the reproduction of racism’’. As a scholar of linguistic devices, he believed that racial discourse had become ingrained in daily life allowing him to outline to identify unique structures to discourse. He differentiates between nonverbal and verbal structures such as syntax, often used to understate responsibility with the use of passive and non-passive sentences. In…