Slave narrative

narration is to unburden his soul. As he continues, it becomes evident that his aim is instead focused upon reliving and understanding the murders he committed. At first read, this narrative seems to simply be that of a man expressing his remorse to relieve himself of guilt before he dies, but throughout the narrative, he contextualizes his guilt by denying the agency of his thoughts while claiming ownership of his actions. The very style of this story suggests to the reader that the narrator…

In the opening sequence of Herge’s comic book, “The Adventures of Tintin; Tintin In The Congo” a young white male reporter and his dog are depicted boarding a vessel as they prepare to embark on a journey to the Belgian Congo. Upon arrival, they are enthusiastically greeted and ceremoniously welcomed as guest by the dark-skinned Congolese people. However, a careful analysis of the illustrations and dialogues sequences shown in the comic begin to paint a marred picture of the author’s ideological…

The narrator quoted in the Tell Tale Heart "Hearken! and observe how healthily --how calmly I can tell you the whole story." The narrator in Tell Tale Heart is a Psychopath. This is because the narrator has these psychopathic traits grandiose self-worth and shallow affect. Also the narrator shows lack or remorse or guilt which can she shown by the quote above. Some other traits the narrator shows are pathological lying, impulsivity, parasitic lifestyle, conning and manipulativeness.(Poe, Edgar…

Competent Italian filmmaker, Matteo Garrone, who over the last few years has been giving us memorable films such as “Gomorrah” and “Reality”, hauls us into three Baroque tales from the 17th century, in which the real and unreal go hand in hand. The director, who exquisitely and efficaciously brings in mystical elements and dreamlike sequences, mixing them with the ethereal music by Alexandre Desplat, combines fulgurant medieval settings to host the odd stories, loosely adapted from the…

The Hotel New Hampshire’s movie adaptation followed to book rather closely, especially when compared to The World According to Garp adaptation. Despite the admirable job done converting the book into a movie, there are some themes present in the book that do not seem to carry over quite as well as the characters themselves do. Maturation is the focus of The Hotel New Hampshire, but that focus is acquired through interaction with people and events. Death, sex and the idea of love, whether sexual…

After leaving Canada, Laurence moved to England for a short while. She returned to England following the separation of her and her husband Jack. Although Laurence did not write much about England, there are English characters included in her novel This Side Jordan. In this novel, Laurence writes from more than one person’s perspective. In the first chapter, there is no one character that the story is told through; it is told from a third-person limited point of view. Thus, although there is no…

One main idea that can be seen in the four books we read and the movie that we watched, everyone is treated specific ways because of how they are different from the others around them. The way that people interact with others is based mostly on how different they are from them. Reading about how things use to be and being able to see how little has changed over time just confirms that we need to work together to change things for the better. Everyone knows how people will treat others different…

Inception. Memento. Two award-winning films directed by one of the greatest storytellers of our generation, Christopher Nolan. Inception: a story of a man struggle to determine whether he is living in a fantasy or a reality. Memento: a story of a man trying to avenge the death of his beloved wife. At glance, both films seem anything but alike. However as the possibly of deeper meanings are explored, we find that this is far from the case. Memento tells the tale of former insurance investigator,…

Does every story have a conflict in it? Most stories I have read has conflicts in them. The conflict makes the story more interesting, and it draws the reader into the story, making them want to read more to find out how the conflict ends. To add to that, there is conflict everywhere at work, at home, and even in one’s family. We all have conflict in our lives, so did the characters in “A Conversation with My Father,” “The Story of an Hour,” and “Eveline.” To begin with, in Grace…

It has been asked a million times: is the book or the movie better? In rare circumstances, the movie can be picked but more commonly people swear by the book. ‘The Secret Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd has not escaped that question, and the answer may vary since both forms of it do have their bonuses. But one version stands out in the way it tells the story, the experience it gives the reader/watcher, and the clarity in which the moral of the story is portrayed. The book gives its readers such a…