Narrative mode

Bryson Miguel’s “Until Something Happens” is a postmodernist, deconstructionist short story that depicts the entropic nature of language and implies that, despite efforts to apply order and meaning to our words, we are only as effectively understood as someone else effectively understands. Miguel’s story also suggests that the true significance of our stories and life experiences are often ambiguous. There is no single and objective meaning to discover, but rather the subjective act of…

endowing the historical event with subjective autobiographical inclinations. Therefore, the autobiographical trope of literary journalistic narrative establishes itself as a textual metaphor that brings forth the imaginative intersubjective experience side by side with the objective historical event of reference as sources for meaning-making of the narrative. Nevertheless, literary journalists, usually, omit the explicit projection of the authorial subjectivity through the use of fictional point…

While some differences between the stories “A&P” and the story called Miss Brill are evident, their similarities are distinct. Both the author of “A&P” and the author of “Miss Brill” present their stories from the main characters point of view. Sammy the narrator of “A&P” shows his acute sense of observation and his ability to notice even the slightest detail about some of the other characters in the story. The main similarity between the two characters are the conflict in which every event they…

of the Dog in the Night-Time, Haddon uses first-person point of view. “My name is Christopher John Francis Boone” (Haddon 2). Told through the eyes of Christopher, an autistic 15-year-old, the novel has a unique twist to it. Although first-person narrative is a common point of view, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon has an idiosyncratic ring to it-- due to the peculiarities of Christopher.…

physical reaction to an event that is happening while still mentioning the details of the outside world events. By doing so it was deemed fit as a work of modernism. Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway”, used a specific style, the structure, and the particular narratives that help construct this with experiments by the usage of characters stream of consciousness technique. I’m hungry and I want to cry. Woolf writes about her set of characters as they go on about their lives on a normal day, and goes within…

“The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, he took a bath,” (3). In the book An Abundance of Katherines by John Green. Colin Singleton is a prodigy, not a genius. When he gets dumped by Katherine the XIX, the nineteenth Katherine that Colin has had a relationship with, he finds himself thinking about having a Eureka moment. A Eureka moment that will lead Colin from a child prodigy to genius…

It's not even past.". This idea is present in all Faulkner's work including 'A Rose for Emily'. The chronology of the narrative embodies and highlights the theme of past versus present. The story covers approximately 74 years and tells of a southern town torn between the past and present. Similarly, my short story reflects on the protagonists past in school and their present…

An expeditious overdose of reality shapes Harlem’s youth, showing them how much they need to work against the status quo and bring upon change. In “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara, the narrator, Sylvia, goes on a field trip into New York City and is angered by the unfair distribution of wealth that she experiences. A neighborhood college-educated woman, Miss Moore, inspires Sylvia to transform her anger into ambition and activism. To end the short story, Sylvia pledges that “ain’t nobody gonna…

The Modern Period was a time of great experimentalism, popular authors began to subvert the tropes of past renowned authors, and there was a new sense of what literature could be. New narrative techniques were being used by many, and one of the most notable was the Stream of Consciousness narrative, where the author would translate their protagonists thoughts directly, rather than giving the audience an omniscient narrator. This strategy was a tool that enabled an entirely different form of…

Dystopian Literature in general contains a dystopian society that “is usually characterized by an authoritarian or totalitarian form of government, or some other kind of oppressive social control.” (http://www.urbandictionary.com) The text The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and the text Brave New World by Aldous Huxley both deal with societies being under control of totalitarian governments. Although the novels are narrated through different perspectives, they share similar dystopian codes…