Narratology

In order to thoroughly tell a story, one must have a specific point of view to assist in the flow of the story. The point of view an author chooses determines how the readers understand and comprehend the story. Different point of views of the same idea lead to different ways of understanding the piece. In The Curious Incident 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…

Narrative and literary techniques are used within various forms of literature to help portray the author’s intentions and thoughts to the reader, specifically to give artistic and emotional effects to the story. These techniques such as style involve the use of metaphors, imagery, alliteration, symbolism and several more. Common techniques applicable to the plot of a story consist of various elements including flashbacks, flashforwards, and foreshadowing specific events. Literary techniques can…

In the short story, Once Upon Of Time by Nadine Gordimer we can see the author uses the six main principles of a theme. We can see how this story starts with a one main idea and then keeps going with another story stating the same idea of the first one. This short story has many important points we can see as a the main idea of the story. I believe the theme of this story is fear, danger, and over protection. First of all, I believe this short story theme is about fear because we can…

In her book, “A Poetics of Postmodernism”, Linda Hutcheon identifies the term postmodernism, when used in fiction, to describe fiction that is at once metafictional and historical in the way it presents the texts and contexts of the past (Hutcheon, 40). This is what she calls historiographic metafiction. Most of the historiographic novels emphasize self-reflexivity and our paradoxical relations to past events. Historiographic metafiction somehow acknowledges the paradox of the past, that is to…

In the novel, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley tells a fascinating story of a young man’s attempts to create life and the consequences that turn his life around. Shelley delivers the story through the three distinct voices of Walton, Victor, and the monster. By using multiple voices, Shelley allows the reader to gain a deeper understanding of all the characters and their relation to each other, but the layers of narrative points of view also causes the reader to remain questionable of the speaker’s…

The texts The End of Remembering by Joshua Foer and “The Ordinary Devoted Mother” by Alison Bechdel, while are stylistically very different, addresses the same themes of the memory and one’s self-identity. Foer, while not as cold or detached as a scientific paper, uses a more formal and traditional tone when compared to Bechdel who approaches these themes through the lens of a graphic novel. The result of this gives two very distinct perspective on how memories affect one’s self identity. Foer’s…

Choose TWO characters and apply our course concept of Story Components to the characters: Characters and Relationships a. Susannah b. Reverend Olin Blitch These two characters know each other from being in the same town of New Hope Valley in which the preacher originally went out of his way to dance with Susannah, the attractive young woman in the opera. Motivations a. Susannah – The main thing Susannah wants is for the Elders to stop hating her for the event she was accused for wrongfully…

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…

There exist two short stories that you would likely enjoy reading. The Interlopers is a story written by Saki. The protagonist of the story is Ulrich von Gradwitz and the antagonist of the story is Georg Znaeym. Kate Chopin wrote the other story: The Story of an Hour. The protagonist of The Story of an Hour is Mrs. Mallard and the antagonist is Josephine. All stories have a message known as the theme of the story. Such themes are valuable to find out because they can be helpful to us. However,…

‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ is an American classic of the Gothic fiction, first published in 1843 by Edgar Allen Poe. Poe combines his own lifetime experience of bereavement, human despair and troubled human relationships into one disturbing, yet engaging first-person narrative told by an unreliable narrator. Poe’s use of first-person narration is essential to enlightening the audience as the narrative exemplifies an internal monologue of the disturbing mentality of a man who claims to be “sane.”…