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The Novel Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey revolves around a thirteen year-old boy named Charlie Bucktin living in the small Australian town of Corrigan in the 1960’s. After Charlie’s inciting incident; being led to the hanging body of Laura Wishart by the town outcast Jasper Jones, his journey of self-discovery commences. He begins to realise and question the harsh reality of everything around him, including but not limited to the racial prejudice in which Corrigan embraces. Characterisation via…

To correctly fully grasp and perceive a turn of events, one needs to view it’s whole record and history. Indeed, this is true in the terms of Mary Shelley’s work, Frankenstein, where there are three established narrators. Through each narrator, events within the novel are bridged which helps the reader precisely see each respective narrator’s point of view and dilemma, thus, providing a more clear picture to interpret overall. However, each narrative is naturally biased, but this helps in…

Ongoing debates regarding the quality of a movie compared to the narrative it is based upon are present in everyday life. Some people believe that the narrative always has a greater appeal than the movie as a result of the significant amount of detail available that may be insufficient in the movie. Others argue that movies are more intriguing than the narrative due to the visual effects that they may not be able to conceptualize while reading. Such discussion pertains to the movie Stand by Me…

As Stewart Dunlop, writer of “What Makes a Good Documentary?” Said, “the essential element of a good documentary is simple, the story.” What makes a worthy story and how do we gather it? It all starts with the art of persuasion, done by appealing to logos, ethos, and pathos. The first component is logos where the creator makes a claim or argument that is later proven using evidence like action or still shots that are credible and reveal the truth. Next is ethos, this is when filmmakers keep an…

How successful are John Green/David Levithan and Kelly Fremon Craig in utilising stylistic conventions of their text type to explore the idea of identity and belonging? The 2010 novel ‘Will Grayson, Will Grayson’ co-written by John Green and David Levithan and 2016 film ‘The Edge of Seventeen’ directed by Kelly Freemon-Craig both use stylistic features appropriate to their texts types to reveal how identity and self-perception are shaped by relationships formed with others. In both texts,…

These is My Words Using a first-person narrative, the reader can sometimes detect that Sarah is interpreting other people’s actions and feelings incorrectly. If the book had been written in third-person, it would not have left the reader in anticipation and excitement for Sarah to discover what the others actually felt, as the reader would not only focus on one person. For example, readers could tell from the very beginning that Sarah had “stolen [Jack’s] very heart away” (Turner 285). However,…

The three works that will be analyzed in this essay are “ Stage to Lordsburg” by Ernest Haycox, “ The Big Sleep” directed by Howard Hawks, and “ Too Many have Lived/They Can Only Hang You Once” by Dashiell Hammett. Each of these works has a unique approach to storytelling, but they all share similar characteristics as well. “Stage of Lordsburg” , “ The Big Sleep” , and “Too Many have Lived” all demonstrate different as well as similar tools in literature, such as characterization and imagery.…

Poet Aesop once said, “Persuasion is often more effectual than force.” Marketers today rely heavily on the art of persuasion, so much so that they have it narrowed down to a sort of science. For example, how many people have been persuaded to buy a weight loss pill? The commercials are very convincing, promising consumers to lose a crazy amount of weight with their pill, and even showing examples of people who lost a great deal of weight while taking the pill. What the advertisers fail to…

Tobias Wolff’s short story “Bullet in the brain” is written as though it was a film and this rhetorical manner evokes a visual, a sonorous, and a neurotic feeling. Yet, even though it seems like a movie, there is a realism to it. Wolff generates a sad ending from the most ordinary thing a human could be doing and this is expressed through the eyes of the story’s narrator that knows how to bring the important details to light. The point of view greatly influences the construction of the story and…

As a narrate, most people would approach The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas written by Ursula K. Le Guin as a confusing text to follow, or even a disoriented narrator whom doesn 't understand what they are trying to portray to the reader. All a side, the narrator created a conflicting story world which portrays what society is today, Le Guin used contradicting patterns of tone through the narrative which corresponded with the imagery used as well. With doing so, Le Guin used formal elements to…