Chapter 4: Narrative Techniques in the Novels and the Films
This study deals almost entirely with films derived from canonical novels. The novels chosen for the purpose of this research originate from varied parts of the world. One notices that they differ in their origin as well as the time period. Even though the novels are all chosen carefully from the best works of twentieth century, they have emerged at different points in time through the modern age. The places of origin differ too. One may assign these differences to create different patterns of narration for each novel.
The aim of this chapter is to carefully look at the narrative structure of the novels and the films adapted from the novels. It is impossible to leave out the topics …show more content…
Notwithstanding its obvious forthrightness, the story actually develops on a psychological dimension as well as emotional. “The tale of The Old Man and the Sea is parablesque”, says Eric Ting adapter and director of the theatrical production of the original novel. (TING) Ernest Hemingway’s style of writing is said to have been copied ("Ernest Hemingway: A Singular Style." Literary Cavalcade 57.8) by far too many. One may say that his prose is so simple which is why his narrative is so striking and effective. Hemingway writes about all the small things, the animals, the weather, the fish with much simplicity. His style is from …show more content…
They are,” I was learning something from the painting of Cezanne that made writing simple true sentences far from enough to make the stories have the dimensions that I was trying to put in them. I was learning very much from him but I was not articulate enough to explain it to anyone….
…He was the greatest. He, Nick, wanted to write about country so it would be there like Cezanne had done it in painting. You had to do it from inside yourself. There wasn’t any trick. Nobody had ever written about country like that. He felt almost holy about it. It was deadly serious. You could do it if you could fight it out. If you had lived right with your eyes.
This study deals almost entirely with films derived from canonical novels. The novels chosen for the purpose of this research originate from varied parts of the world. One notices that they differ in their origin as well as the time period. Even though the novels are all chosen carefully from the best works of twentieth century, they have emerged at different points in time through the modern age. The places of origin differ too. One may assign these differences to create different patterns of narration for each novel.
The aim of this chapter is to carefully look at the narrative structure of the novels and the films adapted from the novels. It is impossible to leave out the topics …show more content…
Notwithstanding its obvious forthrightness, the story actually develops on a psychological dimension as well as emotional. “The tale of The Old Man and the Sea is parablesque”, says Eric Ting adapter and director of the theatrical production of the original novel. (TING) Ernest Hemingway’s style of writing is said to have been copied ("Ernest Hemingway: A Singular Style." Literary Cavalcade 57.8) by far too many. One may say that his prose is so simple which is why his narrative is so striking and effective. Hemingway writes about all the small things, the animals, the weather, the fish with much simplicity. His style is from …show more content…
They are,” I was learning something from the painting of Cezanne that made writing simple true sentences far from enough to make the stories have the dimensions that I was trying to put in them. I was learning very much from him but I was not articulate enough to explain it to anyone….
…He was the greatest. He, Nick, wanted to write about country so it would be there like Cezanne had done it in painting. You had to do it from inside yourself. There wasn’t any trick. Nobody had ever written about country like that. He felt almost holy about it. It was deadly serious. You could do it if you could fight it out. If you had lived right with your eyes.