Narrative mode

Narrative structure is an important aspect of a film and its analysis provides answers to many questions concerning the story and the plot. First of all, there are three kinds of narratives described in Screen Media Analyzing Film and Television: fragmented narratives, multi-strand narratives and classical narration (157). The last type can be found in a war film Platoon directed by Oliver Stone. By definition, classical narration consists of a protagonist, whose actions can be seen as they…

Zusak portrays the message of healing existing in destruction throughout his novel with stylistic devices. Narrative point of view in first person confessional, second person authorial, and third person omniscient all coexist together to establish a connection with the reader, show one what the message is trying to say and to take one out of society to cause a…

A nonsense word is a word that had no conventionally accepted meaning, or has no set definition. Nonsense words can be used to influence a story line, an overall vocabulary, and a stories literary devices. In the poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll and an excerpt from Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, nonsense vocabulary is used. Both texts have some vocabulary attributes that make them similar and different to the other. It is important to understand how nonsensical word usage affects different…

According to Marcus Hartner, the term “multiperspectivism” can be understood in a variety of ways, but the common element between definitions is its relation to “the notion of perspective and point of view” (353). In the case of my object of study, the novel Six of Crows by Leight Bardugo, the concept of multiperspectivism refers to the combination of chapters told from six different perspectives alternating to tell a single storyline, with a fixed heterodiegetic narrator. As the novel is fairly…

The starting point for interpreting a film includes an analysation of the elements of narration. Narrative refers to storytelling. It is a way of ordering events and thoughts in a coherent sequence. Narrative is powered by events that can make or break a movie. “Narrative is the dirt path that leads us through the impenetrable forest, so we move forward and don't feel lost.”[Wade Rawlins, Raleigh News and Observe] This essay will consist of an analyzation of the film Shutter Island (2010)…

eastern end of the island, quite far from other areas, Ken Loach does the work of decentralizing the Irish narrative from Dublin or Northern Ireland’s Belfast (as opposed to Hunger, Some Mother’s Son with their lead characters of Bobby Sands in Belfast, another city). Instead, Ken Loach navigates the telling of an Irish story through a more socialist lens instead of a straight nationalist narrative. Even so, the film ends up heavily sympathizing with characters who do commit murder, even of…

A Story can have many themes, and as we know, there are tons of stories on the world, so it is inevitable that some stories share common themes. For this essay, I would try to do a comparative study on Lenny Abrahamson movie “Room” (original stories by Emma Donoghue) and “Pillowman”, a play wrote by Martin McDonagh, as they both investigated a lot in humanity and taught us a life lesson. In the following, I would discuss three common themes between these two literatures, including how these…

ABSTRACT Many novels have pointed out much controversy, which is based on themes, style and on techniques. Yet, the modern critics talk and speak about the structure as well as about the language or themes of the novel. A novel is considered the creation of the writer or novelist and the reader contacts with the novel through its language, main concept or theme so language and theme need or demand to be analyzed. It can also be said that the basic approaches of communication as well as…

I would advise my friend to read the story “Adventure” because of its exemplification of a grotesque, its exploration of the “personal truth versus concrete truth” argument, and its title, which is not only significant here but in other short stories as well. Winesburg, Ohio, a collection of short stories, is mostly centered around the concept of a grotesque. A grotesque is established in the first short story as someone who twists a truth and tries to live by it. However, through this process…

Management is the process by which managers create, direct, maintain and operate purposive organisations through systematic coordinated operative human effort,fundamentals of management pg (3) The film House cinema, as one of the film houses in Nigeria, was established to promote, preserve, protect and present the culture of the entertainment industry. Urban generations in post-colonial cities have been characterised by the development of certain movements, architectural edifices and…