Narrative Essay

A bold juxtaposition of real and fantastical worlds is at the heart of Guillermo Del Toro’s visually striking, 2006 film, Pan’s Labyrinth. Through the application of audacious stylistic techniques, Del Toro creates a mesmerising, yet haunting cinematic experience. The lush binding of lighting, camera, and sound techniques are used to morph between eerie fairy-tale escapades and a horrific reality to create a film which expresses the value of imagination. The colour palette and its association…

F: How does the way O’Brien structures his work inform the themes and messages he develops? The way O’Brien structures his work through the use of narrative storytelling, direct quotation, and recurring motifs help emphasize the themes of post-war hardships, emotional weakness, and guilt . O’Brien uses common motifs of amoral decision making, isolation, and moral ambiguity. The motifs set the path for the book because O’Brien creates a novel about a group of men who endure the mental and…

He interweaves his own life story with that of his narrator, so that fact and fiction become a complicated web of meaning. He engages the real and the imagined and turns the narration into a magic realism narrative in order to find his sense of self-identity. Magic realism also plays a huge role in Ana Castillo‘s novel, So Far From God when it comes to finding self-identity. The story traces the life of a family of Chicano women and the events that change…

be getting a more nostalgic side of the story. The story would be transformed completely. It would be more focused on how she came to be in the situation that she has been placed in, which would leave Jack in a different position in terms of the narrative. He would clearly be limited in character and more importantly voice. Seemingly,…

William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is renowned for its manipulation of and commentary on language in the role of human psychology. As readers receive information on the Bundren family from the novel’s numerous narrators, their sanity and reliability increasingly come into question. Because the narrators of the story are active characters themselves, Faulkner uses indirect characterization to construct their personalities from multiple, subjective viewpoints. This indirect characterization comes…

interactions and descriptions of her time in them. Despite the sequential setup of the memoir, it still comes off as bouncing from country to country and interaction to interaction. Stack could have included more information between her different narratives rather than jumping between stories. This could have improved how the memoir read, but it still is put together successfully. In the end, this memoir is a compelling read. It shouldn’t be described as an entertaining novel because it’s such…

The Nolan Brothers have done an excellent job in creating a film and a short story with the same idea. Both the film and the short story are very interesting, even though confusing at times. They are also very intriguing, because they draw their audience in, and leaving them wanting more. However, I believe that the film conveys the story more effectively, especially with the understanding of the idea that is being portrayed. The film was more capable of allowing its audience to visualize,…

‘Rear Window’ is a 1954 film by Alfred Hitchcock. It is full of symbolism, narratives, and characterization. In this movie, Hitchcock creates suspense in the next coming shot and the characters looking toward the perspective point of view. He used specific signature motifs such as character parallels between the main character and all other characters in the building. The film focuses around the main protagonist Jefferies, a photographer who recently broke his leg and is restricted to a…

The primary experimental features of my piece pertain to tone and narrative voice. Mainly, this is evident in the story’s third person stream of consciousness narration, and innately contradictory tone. In undertaking such experiments, my writing exists within, but also develops and challenges, broader social, cultural, and literary frameworks. Thus, to contextualise my project, it is necessary to examine influences on my thematic approach, and the technical intricacies of my writing. Firstly,…

Marylyn Fabe (2014) wrote “Cinematic techniques create and heighten a film’s narrative, emotional, and ideological effects” (p.5). The office set design provided the mise en scene to support the film’s narrative. After Verbal departure, Kujan realizes that Verbal's entire story was a lie, pieced together from details from the crowded bulletin board in the office. Every piece became a piece of…