Narrative

The narrative styles of Toni Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eye and Anna Smith’s one-woman documentary play, Twilight, Los Angeles are utilized to tell stories that are too difficult, or in some cases impossible, for the individuals involved to tell on their own. Each text merges first and third person narrative techniques. In Twilight, Los Angeles Smith essentially blends first and third person narrative perspectives in order to present a multitude of first person accounts of the Los Angeles…

is a prime example of one of Arthur Frank’s narrative forms; quest narrative. A quest narrative comprises illness as a “journey”. In Standout, the reader is taken on a journey of the author’s life (mainly in relation to her career) living with multiple sclerosis (MS). The achievements and success as well as the struggles and barriers that Iezzoni faced throughout her career are displayed in this narrative. However, the establishment of the quest narrative framework of this text is merely the…

In the narrative Mile Pequeno wrote he includes many strategies. One being specifying on a scene, including descriptive words to keep the setting clear and giving the reader a visual picture. An example of this being, “Dad kept the set next to the TV stand and, most nights, we’d take it down from the entertainment center and put it on the coffee table in front of the sofa, where we sat side by side and played chess while halfway paying attention to the television.” Classification brings all the…

Oroonoko: A True History (1688) is a work of travel fiction that is split between two narrative voices; beginning with a first person narrative supported by Behn's interesting use of personal voice and progressing to the third person observations of Oroonoko as both a prince and as a slave, Behn creates a realistic and somewhat believable piece of fiction. As a result of this duo narrative, the perspectives of the narrative voices dominate the text, and therefore influence the reader to adapt…

seen most clearly in Living in the Maniototo the narrator Mavis Halleton, Barwell, Furness, Alice Thumb and Viloet Pansy Proudlock to name the most prominent narrative figures split the narrative up into shadows, reflections, distortions of Mavis. This amalgamation of names attitudes and inclinations creates an often hard to decipher narrative where the reliability, sanity of the narrator is constantly being questioned particularly in the trickster…

the case of Mammy, Park’s suggestion is untrue as Marie’s belief is untrue. Despite being forced to leave her family behind, Mammy is able to create a deep bond with Eva, a white child, who is so connected by the bond is unable to accept the grand narrative promoted by her biological mother. It is due to this bond that Marie may have been forced to make the unprovoked remark of Mammy and her children. In the conversation with Ophelia and St. Clare, no topic regarding Eva and motherhood had never…

Studies, it is significant to state the difference between the narrative and story. According to K. R. Jennings (2015) “A story is a structured narrative. It has a beginning, middle and end. It typically contains other ingredients too, like characters and a plot.” Furthermore Jennings states that “a narrative, on the other hand, is a sequence of events. It has no standard form or structure. No distinct beginning or end.” Simply put, narrative is principally the order in which something is placed…

self, but also show why a life consisting only of mental states is missing a few things such as: the construction of a strong personal narrative, a meaningful life, and the temporality of…

modernists used personal narrations and abstract characters to express their own ideological views and personal struggles. Moreover, the characteristics of modernist narratives are littered throughout with an emphasis on symbolisms, the distorted perception of time, a subjective narrator and paralleled connections between how the narrative is read and the connections drawn to the socio-economic climate of the period. Further,…

In 2012 Peter Goldie questioned whether or not narratives are capable of truth and objectivity. Within his deliberation he outlined four ‘fictionalising tendencies’ that people might have. Goldie states that; we plot our lives, finding agency in the world where it is not, narrative thread and the desire for closure and finally genre and character. If it is true that people have these tendencies, it could possibly mean that the media should be allowed to create fiction around facts, as it is…