Narrative

“How does Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time portray interesting ideas about themes?” By employing distinctive features, Mark Haddon effectively situates the responders to experience life through the perspective of an individual with autism. By openly disregarding the rules of conventional storytelling, Haddon’s implementation of exploring the everyday occurrences through the perspective of Christopher Boone, who happens to be a dramatically unconventional character…

Open City by Teju Cole is undoubtedly a narrative without a concise plot for the reader to distinguish a climax or resolution. Instead, the protagonist narrates his observations as he roams New York City and at one point Brussels and colorfully references an inconceivable number of literary, musical and artistic works. This style allows Teju Cole the flexibility to probe a broad array of subjects such as slavery, death, denial of the wrong one does, racism, genocide and the post 9/11…

Robert Louis Stevenson’s essay, ‘A Humble Remonstrance’, [2001, (1884] is a direct onslaught on, the ongoing debate on the nature and function of fiction initiated by two renowned authors Walter Besant and Henry James, whose essays both entitled ‘The Art of Fiction’ attempt to define the artistic side of fiction. Each author entering this discussion had differing views on the subject, and the crux of this debate was to define the laws of what constitutes the definition of ‘Realism’. This…

sense of places all relating to a sense of thrill of confronting death and living to tell the tale. An author uses a sense of place as a device to fuse the reader with their own psychological relationship to the theme being presented within the narrative. In American Sniper, the narrator Chris tells stories…

Narrative a chain of event linked by cause and effect occurring in time and space. When watching a film, us as viewers have to understand the director’s thoughts, emotion and reson for writing their films. When you watch a movie you have to understand the story that’s being played on screen and the plot which is not shown on screen. We call this a director’s theme behind the films story. In all films director’s way create a film that is not practically enunciated but drawn out through the films…

The article I chose, written by Shan Wang for Nieman Lab, focused around paywalls, specifically centered around the Wall Street Journals and their paywalls. A paywall is when an online media outlet charges a fee for access to their news content. The article discusses how paywalls are negative because casual readers are at a disadvantage. They are unable to test out a news source before committing to a payment. The article then describes two types of paywalls: hard and soft. Hard paywalls allow…

For my first essay in ENG100Y I have decided to base my assignment on the reading The Ones Who Walk Away from Omela’s, a metafiction that articulates the making of a story within the fictional story. The topic that I have chosen based on this reading asks that I perform a critical investigation and identify the story world/ worlds the narrator has creatively established and interwoven into this text. After stating these story worlds present in the reading, I am to use examples from the text to…

documentaries. Excavating the Ordinary Although Céu’s characters are unique, and in a sense extraordinary, we can also think of Sérgio Borges’s film as an immersion into the ordinary world of everyday life, a world in which the flow of time barely has any narrative momentum. The film adjusts its rhythm to the rhythms of ordinary time. This illustrates what Ivone Margulies once called the “hyperrealism of the everyday,” which, in counterpoint…

Throughout the novel, Wise Blood written by Flannery O'Connor, the use of symbolism is used to explore many aspects of characters within the story. O'Connor uses many different writing techniques to depict her objective in writing. The use of symbolism is a technique she uses to justify her characterizations and the messages she wants readers to understand through this novel. This use of symbolism provides readers with an ability to develop a strong understanding of characters throughout Wise…

The Tragedy Paper Review The Tragedy Paper by Elizabeth LaBan tells riveting narratives alternating between two contrasting perspectives, Duncan’s experiences and Tim’s recollection. LaBan illustrates a relatable road to self-discovery through the eyes of Tim, a misfit. I was completely captivated by the story, LaBan meshed the two plotlines perfectly to make me want to continue reading. Throughout the book, Laban brings the reader along with Duncan Meade during his senior year at The Irving…