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    has no control over such as alcohol. His sanity is something that must be proven, and with Poe’s use of the first person narrative we see it become possible. Edgar Allen Poe uses first person point of view to help the reader further understand the narrator’s decline into insanity. In the story, readers are allowed to see into the mind of the unnamed narrator through the use of first person narration which is ultimately how he is proven as unreliable. The narrator blames most of his demise on…

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    Fiction Vs Nonfiction

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    Through the methods in which a writer creates a fictional story by using devices such as, Character, plot, and point of view they are able to expand and enhance our ability to understand other human beings; it promotes a deep sense of morality that affects all readers. Subsequently, fiction’s happy endings have distorted the reader’s sense of reality for the betterment of society. As a matter of fact, fiction is more effective at challenging our beliefs than nonfiction, which is made to persuade…

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    First Person Narrator Analysis In copious novels, poems and biographies, war relentlessly preys on hope, innocence and humanity, abandoning the wreck full of bewilderment and anguish. In the short novel In Another Country, Ernest Hemingway employs first person narration to illustrate the detachment and loneliness of the wounded soldier through the transition from emotionless, declarative narrations to a subtle disclose of longing for acceptance, revealing the destruction of war through…

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    choices everyday, whether or not a person is willing to take part in something that will affect their lives in what kind of choices the individual makes. Not everyone is going to agree with what decision someone will make, but a person has to make a decision that will influence his or her life. Individuals have a desire to have a vigorous life, so that the choices the people make will influence their future. Timing plays an important role in a story because a person will judge a young teenager…

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    When reading the story there are many different emotions that come to mind, but first the reader tries to differentiate what character they are most like. They do this so that they can look at it from that perspective. Most people would want to believe that they are like the narrator, and they do not care about “things” but instead…

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    look after him and tell him from what's right and wrong. With that being said my second reason on why he acted this way is because Megan's sister reminds him of his mother. Throughout the whole story, Magagna sister is described as a monthly figured person, one scene where we would see this is when ¨Megan's sister would come out on the doorstep to call her brother in for tea¨(381). Calling in younger siblings for dinner is something a mother would do, and is maybe the reason why it reminded him…

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    Native Americans, he felt as if Native American people were looked down upon and inferior, and this was the story’s plot. The storyline of Blue Winds Dancing was structured in chronological order and consisted of three different ideas or sections. First, the man expresses his college in California, then, he addresses the train through the Southwest and he ends the story finding the true identity. He truly was Native American and that was what he was meant to…

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    as his own. He uses first-person narration to affect the reader’s perception of the events being described in the novel through the use of stylistic devices. Thus, able to manipulate the reader’s beliefs and train of thought, to dictate what the they should think. More specific to the factors affection our perception of the events being described in the novel, Nabokov uses various literary elements such as characterization and various narrative techniques as well as first person point of view to…

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    It is a story about a young man attempting to write a story, he has preconceived ideas on how to write and follows a “writer’s manual” and the “litmus test” (an acronym he created on how stories should be written). Ironically, he has decided his first never will be a family saga. The irony is made clear when the protagonist’s three friendly travelling companions get off the train, leaving him in an ominous environment with the two brothers with “dark, brooding eyes and thick pouting lips”. The…

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    The plot of a story is the sequences of events that help a story reach its end. A story will always have events in it that are used to propel it forward. While some events are used to provide information about the setting and some background information, other events can help the story reach its conclusion. The plot of a story usually has 5 parts: beginning with the exposition, then the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution which is the ending of a story. The…

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