First-person narrative

Margaret Atwood, the author of the narrative, chose to use a first-person narrator in the story who gives a tale from her point-of-view explaining the events and memories that took place around her. Importantly, Offred gives the narration as the events happen and shows a reader her thoughts through digressions and flashbacks. Offred is a Handmaid in the Gilead Republic, which is a state characterized by totalitarianism and has replaced the United States. The nation has low rates of reproduction, and the role of the handmaid is to bear children for couples that experience trouble conceiving and giving birth. In Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s…

Poe’s descriptive vocabulary, his first person point of view, and his gothic stories. Ray Bradbury was another author that my class studied this semester. I enjoyed his many metaphors and his abstract descriptions in his story “Fahrenheit 451”, but I found the book hard to read due to the flow his writing had. Writing, like art, comes in many different fashions. Poe, a short story writer with a gothic style, and Bradbury, a highly descriptive science fiction author, write about very different…

hallucinatory narrative of ghosts derived from her passion of the employer is a detailed observation of the novels alternate, all be it underlined, narrative of Henry James asking questions and demonstrating themes such as "why do people lie?" And observing the psychological phenomenon in which a series of mainstreamed hallucinations, brought on by the governess’s repressed feelings in an isolated location, coerced into a singular tale of detailed filled content.…

of the first person narrative;…

In the first section, the first two line start with ‘To think of’, then the third to fifth line start with ‘Have you’, then he uses ‘To think that’ for the last lines in the section. This repetition links the meanings together and creates a stronger point. Whitman also uses exclamation marks to increase the loudness of his message and to make the point more fierce and strong. ‘The breath ceases, and the pulse of the heart ceases’, this is another example, using the same word twice to fully…

outweighs the strength of men. The text, ‘That Eye, The Sky’, written by Tim Winton, explores strengths and weaknesses of characters when faced with family issues. The novel is written in first person, narrated by main protagonist, Ort. The plot encompasses the life of Ort, his mother – Alice and family helper, Henry. These characters all show strengths, however, some are clearly stronger than others. Commonly used by Winton, is the practice of symbolism and allusions, allowing the reader to…

during his high school years. Most of his poems are notable for the informal, organized language that implies messages rather than openly stating them. Perhaps in his poem, “Mending Wall”, Frost is speaking of two different kinds of walls, both physical and emotional. There is the actual wall that separates the land of the two speakers in the poem, and there is the implication of a wall symbolic to the distance people allow between themselves and others in order to create or maintain strong…

and wealth to be the key. There are a lot of people who disagree with both sentiments and believe that happiness comes from something else entirely, which we can observe in many forms of literature. One novel in particular, titled Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde, describes happiness in many definitions, all of which can be interpreted by the reader. Each character views and experiences happiness in a different way than anyone else and we see each experience in a third person narrative.…

Furthering his previous idea, he suggests that the city’s beauty is only present because of the suns limitless reach and enriching qualities. Furthermore, he incites that the newness and originality of the view through his impressed attitude. In line ten, “first splendor” continues to propose a morning sunrise filled with brilliant light, but, contrary to previous lines, Wordsworth depicts the brightness as that shining on a “valley, rock, or hill” rather than manmade infrastructure. Through…

and lives throughout the course of the book’s journey. Both books take a very serious and stylistic approach to the topics of dialect and writing style. It is noticeable in the first few pages of both that the authors have clear intentions of creating a novel that is not only sound and verbose, but shapes the language around the characters and the world. In Catcher in the…