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    “The Yellow Wallpaper”, but nowhere near as important to “The Story of an Hour”. Because the “The Yellow Wallpaper” uses first person to narrate the story it helps the reader to understand the reasoning behind the actions and feelings of the protagonist. It also gives the lector a greater insight into the development…

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    adhering by an individual person 's personal perspective, feelings/emotional, or opinions/ideas. In both stories, the first person narrative may use the details of the surrounding current events for the plots setting to exhibit a slight objective truth factual and accurate historical. In contrast, the main focus, instead of the historical accuracy, should be fixated on the foundation of each story’s narrative style. First person memory reliance is each stories narrative style and they both use…

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    a strange appeal that unreliable narrators convey to readers. Strange, because readers take the narrations seriously, while knowing they are unreliable and limited. A game each reader desperately wants to solve, but what happens when there is a first-person unreliable narrator who is funny? Wayne C. Booth coined the term “unreliable narrator” in 1961, by referring the narrator as someone whose credibility is compromised. Vera Nünning’s “Unreliable Narration and the Historical Variability of…

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    view comes in three different forms; first-person, second-person, and third-person. Also, in third-person, the narrator can be limited or omniscient. Often times authors manipulate the reader's thoughts or emotions through point of view. In Raymond Carver's “Cathedral” and Kate Chopin’s “Story of an Hour”, both authors use point of view effectively to allow the reader into the characters thoughts. In the short story “Cathedral”, Carter uses a first-person point of view because the narrator…

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    Furthermore, is the sound that one habitually senses when the pulse is racing uncontrollable, whether the situation is being dealt with fear, nervousness, etc. When a person is broadly watching or reading a horror movie/story, the person’s awareness level is thrilled with wanting us to perceive what will arise later. Authors build a progressive amount of suspense to conduct the reader’s interest. Suspense is a feeling of tension and expectation. Author’s employs anxiety to manufacture reader’s…

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    Vladimir Nabokov’s, Lolita, shows off his extraordinary narrative skills which bring a visionary insight into the issue of morality, a romantic verse and a grasp of human character that seem unique as his own. He uses first-person narration to affect the reader’s perception of the events being described in the novel through the use of stylistic devices. Thus, able to manipulate the reader’s beliefs and train of thought, to dictate what the they should think. More specific to the factors…

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    True Life Challenges: AKA an Abnormal Person Well known TV Personality and Actor Warwick Davis once stated: “The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.” (Brainy Quote) Those who do have any type of social disability know that they have one, but they do not let it define them. Society seems to acknowledge the disability, more than the actual person. The quote relates to the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon because the main character has…

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    headed out to Greasy Lake after a long night of going in and out of every bar in town. The narrator, who remains nameless, tells the story. The narration of this story gives the reader a certain insight to the story. In Boyle’s “Greasy Lake”, the first person narration provides insight for the reader to experience things as the narrator does. The narration in “Greasy Lake” provides the readers with a specific message that “through suffering comes wisdom.” The narration gives in more detail the…

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    With many of the other stories being told through the perspective of the main character, in a first-person narrative, it was easy to get a sense of what they were feeling or empathize with them. The novel What Maisie Knew by Henry James is a story about a young girl caught in the middle of her parents’ divorce. The way the story is told by a third person point of view, the narrator makes it tough to see things through Maisie’s perspective. In a way that is exactly the way she felt, lost. In the…

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    In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stow uses various methods to give her idea. In the process of telling the story, Stow often chooses some third persons to talk with readers directly. Sometimes the third person accuses their indifferent, sometimes mocks banter or shouts loudly, the objective is to stimulate readers accustomed to slavery numb attitude, arouse their moral conscience. For example, in chapter twelve, while the author finishes narrating the process that slavers found her baby was secretly sold…

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