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Un-Traditional Narration In the nineteenth-century, traditional narratives were the epitome of the literal world. Traditional narratives were written to allow readers to follow along a storyline fairly easily. Stories would focus on order where events would occur chronologically. This type of narration was extremely linear with a start, middle, and end to the story. Stories would have a climax, resolve of conflicts, and then closure usually with a “happily ever after” ending. This type of…

The Greatest Movie Ever Sold I think that Morgan Spurlock took a risk by making this film on this topic. Speaking out against big and important companies seems to be a danger thing especially nowadays where commercials are everywhere and anytime. There are some companies that are very important and have influence from around the world like Nike and Cocoa-Cola. His film started by commercials in some place where ads are everywhere. There were ads in buildings, busses, taxis, movies, and even in…

Faulkner’s southern gothic novel, As I Lay Dying, has a uniqueness to it that is demonstrated in the way he chooses to tell this story. The Bundren Family, the family whom the story centers around, make up the majority of the stories narration with a few chapters in the point of view of outsiders. The story centers around the journey the Bundren Family takes to Jefferson to bury Addie Bundren, the mother of the family. The story is narrated by fifteen different people, seven of which are…

As Evelina’s function as a narrator is to offer background and cultural context, it comes to no surprise that she encounters Warren. She adds “points” regarding him, furthering those established by Marn. Evelina meets Warren while in a psych ward, both as a worker and as a patient. In one of their first encounters, Evelina states that “He tried to give me money—dollar bills folded fine in a peculiar way” (229). Warren’s action with the folded up dollars would strike anyone as odd, yet, as the…

Henry James’ Brooksmith is the narration by an unnamed character about his experiences with a servant names Brooksmith during and after his conversations with Brooksmith’s master Mr Offord. In the story, Brooksmith starts off as more of a background character to the narrators and Mr. Offord’s conversations. But as the story goes on, Mr.Offord becomes ill, ultimately bringing Brooksmith into the story’s spotlight. Later on in the story we see the death of Mr.Offord, and then begins the decline of…

First Person Narrator Analysis In copious novels, poems and biographies, war relentlessly preys on hope, innocence and humanity, abandoning the wreck full of bewilderment and anguish. In the short novel In Another Country, Ernest Hemingway employs first person narration to illustrate the detachment and loneliness of the wounded soldier through the transition from emotionless, declarative narrations to a subtle disclose of longing for acceptance, revealing the destruction of war through…

Magical realism is “… characterized by the matter-of-fact inclusions of fantastic or mythical elements into apparently realistic fiction” (Edison). Characteristics of this genre include plentitude, hybridity, metafiction, and an unreliable narrator. A story that shows magical realism is “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” by Gabriel García Márquez. Márquez is recognized as one of the best authors who combines reality with fantasy: “… García Márquez, combining radically different realities, what…

When considering a story such as The Immortals, one must take into account not only the contents, characters and setting of the story, but the manner in which it is told, and the perspective by which it is narrated. All of these components are certainly full of importance, but all of them must be valued equally or the balance would tip and fall crashing down from the point all the best stories, like The Immortals, strive to reach. Unfortunately, there is a surprising amount of rather irritable…

Third-person limited narration and first-person present tense/retrospective narration are two different types of narrations used in literature. These narrations can be seen in Uplike’s “A & P” and Cheever’s “The Swimmer”. “A & P” is about a man named Sammy who works in a grocery store. He notices a group of three girls dressed in bathing suits walk in. As they walk around the store, Sammy cannot stop looking at them. As the story progresses, Lengel, the manager, ends up telling the girls they…

Leave it to writer/director Park Chan-wook to not leave any stone unturned in his erotically-charged and stylish drama The Handmaiden. We have mystery, betrayal, an explicit love affair, and a healthy dose of cringe-worthy violence and unreliable narrators all conveniently tucked inside a beautifully composed costume drama set in 1930s Korea, where a manipulative con man sets in motion his most complicated ruse to date. Told as a triptych, where three segments are referenced as "books", The…