Narrative Report Essay

This year, two brilliant selections have been read in which a character has shown perseverance and courage, thus giving a positive change in an overall outlook of the society, or positive change in the character itself. In one of the selections, the protagonist Rikki Tikki Tavi, changed a dangerous garden into a peaceful, safe place. In the other novel, the main character, Jonas, has changed himself from a weak, innocent person to a strong person full of wisdom. As each story progresses, good…

Point of view can often times be expressed in first, second, or third person. First person often uses I, me, mine, myself, etc. and is mostly used to tell a personal narrative. Second person often uses words such as you and yours and is commonly used in emails, a written speech, or when giving directions. Lastly, there is third person. Third person often uses words such as he, she, him, her, and it and is used largely in formal writing, summaries and responses, or when comparing and contrasting…

“I am haunted by humans” -Death. Death is the shadowed figure cloaked in black, gaunt fingers curled calmly around a silver scythe, feeding on darkness and murder. Feeding on war. But what if Death hated war? If he only wore a cloak when it was cold, if Death had a heart? Markus Zusak’s, The Book Thief, proposes exactly that. Narrated by an eerily human and vulnerable Death, Zuzak questions everything depicted about this ender of life. While engrossed in the life of a young Communist girl in…

Plot: An apocalypse destroyed civilization as man has known it. The world now ashy, grey, and desolate. A man and a boy walk a long, winding road. The boy will never know the world before, as the man--his father--and him do not speak often during the story. Walking the road, the ocean becomes their destination. Many dangerous scenes unfold on their journey as well, either finding them, or they finding it. When starving, they take extreme risks that they would normally not, such as breaking into…

In this story, there are many different forms of irony. The three forms of irony are verbal, situational, and dramatic. Verbal irony is when someone says something, but they mean the opposite of what they say. Situational irony is when something happens, but it isn’t what we expected. Dramatic irony is when the reader knows something that the characters in the story don’t know. An example of verbal irony, is when Miss. Strangeworth begins writing one of her letters. In her letter she writes…

“Man From The South”, written by Roald Dahl and published in 1948, is a short story that features a preposterous man who makes purposeless bets and when the facing person loses the bet, the man, Carlos, chops off one of the opposing person’s fingers. In the story “Man From The South”, Carlos makes a bet with a young naval cadet that if the naval cadet can light his cigarette lighter ten times in a row without missing once, the naval cadet wins a sleek, pale-green Cadillac. If the naval cadet…

In the article “Hollywood Warms to Asian Movies, American-Style,” by Renee Graham, she discusses Hollywood’s trend of remaking Asian movies into English. She informs readers that movies such as The Grudge and Shall We Dance? were both based on Japanese originals. Major studios are continuing to snap up the rights to films from South Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong with the intention of remaking them with American actors (Graham 229). Throughout the article, Graham outlines the pros and cons of…

their thoughts, memories, and sense of self within two separate temporal locations. One level sees the writer as the all-seeing powerful being examining and interpreting memories in retrospect through the narrative voice, and the other allows the author to function as a character within the narrative who may physically interact with the story, albeit both roles are explicitly constrained by the limits of their memory. The graphic memoirs Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and Maus by Art Spiegelman…

Classical narrative structures are a central feature to any genre of hollywood produced movies, in which a story is beginning told to the audience through this media. However, it is quite seldom that spectators of the movies will be able to see the specfic result of the narrative, due to the structure base created by the director. These narratives are created to give an effortless approach to the audience, who are blind-sided by the no trace of the narrative structure. “Narrative process…

I read the book “The Giver” and then watched the movie based on that book. In my opinion, I enjoyed the book much more than the movie. “The Giver” is about a dystopian community where there are no decisions or pain. A boy named Jonas learns about the emotions and pain and suffering that no one experiences, and then he decides to try and bring everything back to the community. I enjoyed the book version of “The Giver” more than the movie because in the movie Jonas is able to show his friends…