Irvin Welsh: Filth
The second research I gathered for building the writing style of my story came in the form of 2 novels by Scottish writer Irvin Welsh. Both of these novels came with far more parallels towards how I was to develop the structure of my own story than Of Mice and Men. One such parallel is the use of first person narrative and present tense. This is a more unusual combination in literature and so I was very pleased to come across two famous and well-acclaimed examples in order to take inspiration from. Secondly I wanted to focus on researching the presentation of a more gritty and unpleasant setting that I felt my character was more likely to face than the pleasant settings in Of Mice and Men. I chose to do this by studying
The second research I gathered for building the writing style of my story came in the form of 2 novels by Scottish writer Irvin Welsh. Both of these novels came with far more parallels towards how I was to develop the structure of my own story than Of Mice and Men. One such parallel is the use of first person narrative and present tense. This is a more unusual combination in literature and so I was very pleased to come across two famous and well-acclaimed examples in order to take inspiration from. Secondly I wanted to focus on researching the presentation of a more gritty and unpleasant setting that I felt my character was more likely to face than the pleasant settings in Of Mice and Men. I chose to do this by studying