Narrative

entertainment industry. Where movies may have large budgets and what seems like an unlimited supply of resources, television must be creative in this department. Cue in what media expert Jason Mittell regards to as the “special effects” of TV, the narrative complexity. Show creators must equip themselves with an arsenal of tools to differentiate themselves from the next program and capture the attention of their audiences (Mittell, 2015). While, content will continually remain…

analysis of narrative voice. An individual’s unique mindset, experiences and context, and their response to difficult situations influence the intricate bond between the public and private world. Such factors are necessary in communicating the individual’s thoughts and behaviours. Through narrative voice, Mark Haddon investigates the relationship between the public and private worlds…

kept the memories of great-grandparents, our paternal grandfather, our parents and the whole childhood”(128). The formation of the main characters, siblings like in Poe’s story, and their connection to the house is the foundation for Cortázar’s narrative. The brother and sister live within the house in a state of continual dullness, going about their hobbies and interests with no real purpose. The narrator, the brother, simply lives the convenient bachelor…

Yunqi Qian WR 150 Rhetorical Analysis on Sushi: The Global Catch Sushi has become a global appreciation these years. However, the process of traditional sushi-making remains as a mystery to the general public. In the beginning of Sushi: The Global Catch, Mark S. Hall, the author of the movie, invited Mamoru Sugiyama, the owner of Sushiko Restaurant, a Michelin-starred sushi restaurant, as a narrator, to introduce the traditions of sushi-making. In Sugiyama’s words, the traditional techniques…

her quick wits. (23) Stage Fright has remained a focal part of critical reflections on Hitchcock's work because it provides the prototype for unreliable narration and a springboard for discussions of the “lying” flashback in film. It took on the narrative expectations of audiences and critics about truth and reliability that had not yet been challenged. When asked about the structure of Stage Fright during his 1962 interview with François Truffaut, Hitchcock…

“Castello Cavalcanti ”, Wes Anderson uses color, precise framing, music, Eye line shots and detailed composition of the frames to convey the narrative to the audience. The use of Eye line shot and pan shot brought flow and smoothness to the theme of the film. The music and the image throughout the film mostly went hand in hand and parallel to the narrative and the plot of the film. We can even notice the movements of the camera to be quite methodical, that is, either left, right, forward or…

Arie From Camp white kid ramblings by Carson O’Brien I’ve told this tale before, the goal of the story at the time of its first story was to convince people it was about some other narcissist. I find it hard to tell a personal narrative, personally I believe that narrative and author should be separated.However that’s impossible, which is why artist put a vail over the non-existent face.That brings up another issue, light.Despite humans having many insecurities it is often hard for us to paint…

‘The Tribe’ by Michael Mohammed Ahmad is reliant upon literary devices to elevate the emotional impact upon the reader. Complex events in the book are often presented as simplistic and understated through the narrative voice of the child. Such sentences juxtapose the deep and dramatic musings of the old narrator. The literary devices, such as metaphor, simile and characterisation, are used in an original way which sometimes mask the dark undercurrents of the situation. This is present in the…

we can never at least begin to understand the point of views of others. Personal narratives serve this purpose. They allow us to start understanding things we may never experience ourselves. When reading an autobiography…

film? To find richer meaning in film, a variety of theories are developed to analyze films in order to understand how they created responses in viewers and just what they might mean. Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000) is presented by its non-linear narrative structure. It provides the viewer with the ‘clues’ necessary to decode the film and help them to understand the chronological order of the story. It successfully captures the essence of a puzzle plot that requires the viewer to piece the…