Narrative mode

The I and the Eye in literature is displayed especially in autobiograpy. It refers to the fact of remembering, sharing or lying about memories that the writer is willing to share with the reader. We can ask ourselves if an autobiography can be reliable about the writer's life. Among all the writers who write an autobiogaphy, I have selected in the first place Barack Obama's autobiography written in 2012; then, chapter 2 of Stephen Fry's autobiography entitled Moab is my washpot written in…

In autobiographical literary journalistic texts, the author functions as an on-page character as well as a real-life human being. According to Lejeune, the author “is not just a person, he is a person who writes and publishes. With one foot in the text, and one outside, he is the point of contact between the two,” (200). In order to maintain authenticity, the two must bear cohesive identity markers, drawing attention to cohesion between the self in the story and the author's own self. So, the…

historical and cultural contexts. Thus each writer whose novel we have selected to study would have a different technique of narration and so would the narrative techniques of all the films be different. The use of narration is very interesting in each and every novel and its adaptive film. Through this study, one can safely say that a narrative film opens with a story it wants to tell. But in order to tell this story, the film has to be made and for the film to be actualised, a set must be…

As a last point, the subsequent paragraphs will look closer once more and résumé why in particular and in which parts of their journey the three main characters of the analysed movies can be considered antiheroes, what their lives as losers have in common, and why the viewer can relate to them. Especially at the beginning of the films, one can detect a great amount of obvious features that can be subsumed under the category ‘antihero’ such as Lester’s clumsiness, Frank’s business suit that makes…

Influence is something that can have a huge impact on many. It is through observation and training from experts that one can become highly skilled in a craft which can create a large impact on others. In the film-making field, a person could consider the actor-director, Charles Chaplin as an expert through his various films and shorts. His works are enjoyed yet there is something beneficial to one interested in entering the entertainment industry. However, Chaplin did not gain his skills out of…

This style of narrative is essentially the “story within a story” (Narrative Theory and the Eraly Novel, n.d.). The story is depicted by a character within the text “who shares” with the other characters of the novel, “a narrative of his or her own” (Narrative Theory and the Eraly Novel, n.d.). It can be argued that Half of a Yellow Sun does uses a metadiegetic narrative as “Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie views the use of a clever…

NO. 1: Introduce the movie by stating that you’ve just seen this movie and would like to give an opinion about it. Mention a couple of details that might help the reader understand what type of movie you are talking about. In October of 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union became embroiled in a confrontation that could easily have escalated into nuclear war. Many of the details of that confrontation, which is known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, are brilliantly dramatized by the…

Wolfgang Iser’s essay The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach, delineates the author-reader relationship in completion of a literary work, where the author plays the ‘artistic’ role, which is that of the creator of the text, and the reader plays the ‘aesthetic’ role, which, he mentions is the process of the ‘realization’ of the text . (Iser 279) He refers to Roman Ingarden’s “Intentionale Satzkorrelate” (Intentional sentence correlatives), where the interaction of the otherwise…

The definition of suspense is, “a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty of what might happen.” At least that is what dictionary.com refers to it as. Also, in both the stories “Lamb to the slaughter,” and “The Lottery,” mood plays an important role in the story. Through the mood, we get the main idea of the scenario or what the author is trying to make out of this scenario. Throughout the story reader can learn that both these stories have mood built up especially in specific…

As we all know, the theme of a story is the lesson that is being taught throughout the novel. But a theme can also be the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, or a person's thoughts. All stories have a theme, but they may not always be directly stated. This requires readers to dig deep down into the text and analyze the lessons that they have acquired through the book. Between the two excerpts, "Angelas Ashes" and "The Street", there is common theme that perseverance is important when…