Narrative mode

(Who is Bayaan?) “Bayaan” is a local-impact initiative located in the state of Maharashtra in India, that is dedicated to enabling communities to reclaim their agency for narration by reimagining their positionality as subjects of narratives, to consumers of narratives. Kyun Bayaan Karein? (Why should we narrate?) This project is centered around highlighting the privilege of consumption. Consumption is a consumer-driven and producer determined force, wherein the construction of the…

usage of rhetorical elements such as narration from different point of views (which is “made up” or exaggerated) and several rhetorical techniques provide support to the various arguments he makes in his work of The Things They Carried. The rhetorical mode of this book is mainly narration. It is made up of the viewpoints of several different characters and the story that follows. This “jumping” of several viewpoints is one of the things he argues about; and that is, the fact that “story-truth is…

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…

Before dissecting the larger cycle found within A Plague of Doves, establishing how the cycle functions within the novel on a smaller scale becomes necessary. This stems from Shamengwa’s violin story illustrating how a simple object can span generations and time. This particular violin Shamengwa “…treated [with] the reverence we accord our drums, which are considered living beings and require from us food, water, shelter, and love (197). It is this same violin that is stolen in the night, with…

Naturally, a story told in first-person point of view is flawed. However, the author Ken Kesey picks Chief Bromden, the least suspecting of all characters, to narrate his book One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. As Bromden tells the story from his perspective, he is able to gain credibility from the audience because he faithfully recounts not only the misadventures and mayhem in the ward but also the story of his personal breakthrough. In the beginning, Bromden tells us that he is under that…

in the change of literature written in different versions. In the different versions of the literature, the change of words the authors use to narrate the literature changes the significance of the narration and the reader 's’ impressions of the narratives in which causes the reading to be misleading. The change of words in the different version of The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite and Like Water for Chocolate, changes the significance of the narration. The author Gregory Navy in The Homeric Hymn…

be referred to as “Science Fiction”, consists of an array of elements. This reflection will focus on the following four elements; dense physical description, the idea of the lonely scientist, the story’s own materiality, and the form of the frame narrative. With little dialogue, “The Lifted Veil” is heavy with description. When Latimer recalls his entrance into Geneva, his physical description fits with the science fiction formal element, “dense physical description”; “When I was sixteen I was…

“Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.”(John Simon) A Separate Piece written by John Knowles, tells the story of two boys whose friendship is in constant motion of changing, from best friends to rivals. There are many changes in the movie that show a different experience for the audience. The movie adaptation of A Separate Piece has a less personal engagement between the characters and the audience as well as placing less importance on the events and characters. This creates a less…

I feel that Baldwin chose this excerpt as the epigraph for the Giovanni’s Room because, the line itself it alludes to many of the key themes explored throughout the novel like masculinity, sexual identity, and being present. Placing the excerpt in the context of “Song of Myself” reveals even more about the idea of self-acceptance that Baldwin also explores in the novel; Many of the lines leading up to the final couplet begin with “How he,” as if to present a sort of distance between the narrator…

anticipation and emotional feelings, depicting them across such a fragile subject, the author introduces fragmented narrative. As this technique of playing with the order of the existing events ,…