Narrative mode

characters ' personality, much more so than in some of Hemingway 's works. This is also encouraged by the fact that there are, on average, much more narrative dialogue than there is character dialogue. While Hemingway relies on the characters to introduce themselves via dialogue, Faulkner relies on the narrator to introduce a character via narrative monologues. There is also a much more traditional feel to Faulkner 's method of character development where he tries to answer any potential…

Literary Techniques and the Horror of The Turn of the Screw One purpose of Henry James’ gothic novella The Turn of the Screw is to instill fear in the reader. There are several features of this work that make the story horror inducing; first, James’ deals with the idea of the corruption of innocence of children. In the story’s opening chapter, the observation is made that the corruption of a child in a ghost story “adds a particular touch” (James 115). Fear is also associated with the…

but for some reason had driven to Crosby, Main. Had he known she would be working here?” (Strout 56). The narrator’s informality is a key feature that makes these stories work as it inserts its elucidating comments here and there, interrupting the narrative for a small digress using dashes, colons, semicolons and sometimes ellipses or taking the voice of the character entirely to state an important thought. It is a satisfying technique that is used throughout the book quite often and has the…

Verbal Values “Bela” is a story that is adapted from Lermontov’s novel, The Hero of our Time. This is a novel that has attracted a wide leadership due to the values that are communicated through various characters. In this story, the author describes his reasoning on various characters and the way in which they behave. Either to help others or to help themselves. Some even ended up getting influenced by others to a point of changing their way of doing things. The values they hold shape the way…

Everyday narratives: Living in uncertainty in Suleimani This chapter focuses on ethnographic vignettes from ordinary people from the city of Suleimani, Kurdistan. I specifically analyse narratives highlighting living under uncertainty, as part of the bigger theme of everyday politicizing narratives addressed in my thesis. The everyday narratives have resulted from intermittent fieldwork conducted in 2015 and 2016, supplemented by previous reflections and encounters from 2011 in the city of…

suspense of the plot. Unlike external conflict, which is conflict between two characters, inner conflict is the battle between a character and themselves. In the novel A Separate Peace, the main character Gene battles inner conflict throughout the narrative. A Separate Peace is a novel about two teenage boys who are best friends that battle through jealousy and betrayal throughout the story. The author John Knowles implicated many uses of techniques and devices throughout the story that help…

Ghana is a country with personality. It is a hidden gem bursting with diverse, authentic and exceptional tourist attractions, captivating and varied travel experiences, a door-always-open friendliness and a rhythmic vibe. And in the words of American chef, author and television personality Anthony Bourdain who travelled to Ghana for a 2007 episode of No Reservations, “Ghana is something special.” With this in mind, raising awareness of Ghana as a formidable, special and must-visit tourist…

1. What do you know about the mother of the story? Mama is the narrator of the story who is a rather large lady who works very hard to support her family. She is brutally honest of both her daughters, Dee and Maggie. She also seems resentful of Dee’s education since she fantasizes about them reuniting with her on a television show where Dee is very appreciative of her. 2. When we have a first-person narrator, we have to decide if she is reliable or unreliable. Do you trust this narrator? Why…

themselves, jeopardizing themselves, destroying themselves, so that the same sentence may contain an observation and its immediate negation.” I aspire to a similar concept – a story which simultaneously comprises, or at least alludes to, an explicit narrative, that narrative’s antithesis, and a broad spectrum in-between. A story which is neither confined to, nor restricted by, itself. This is my broad thematic goal, along with smaller themes pertaining to emotional permanence and feeling…

I had to be very consistent when building my character’s identities to make them believable. I had to make it clear to my audience, why the character was acting the way they were. I also had to avoid cliches because the audience tends to see cliches as superficial. In term of my characters motivations I wanted to make my main character, Scarlet, not know how to live independently or act politely around people. Therefore, I created a situation where she was spoiled as a child. Scarlet’s…