Narratology

Attention, attention read all about it, Tim O’Brien uses fiction or narrative in his writings. When you read a story, you are the narrator, how would you read the story. Would you see yourself in the story, being the main character, being on the front line like Tim O’Brien was. Imagine yourself carrying the things of past or deceased soldiers. You are in control, you have the power to make a story a fiction piece or a narrative one. I did, when reading, “The Things They Carried,” Tim O’Brien I…

Over the course of history, the structure of a play has continually evolved. Aristotle, renowned Greek philosopher, first introduced the three-act structure which consisted of a beginning, middle, and end. This was further expanded by Aelius Donatus, who named the three divisions protasis, epitasis, and catastrophe. As time has passed, this structure of a drama has been largely replaced by the five-act structure but can still be found in use today. The five-act structure, utilized by numerous…

Shooting the Breeze and Shooting an Elephant: Fictional Styling in Orwell’s Essay George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant is a personal essay describing an event that Orwell claims occurred while he was working as a police officer in Burma, a portion of the British Empire. Though the story is presented as a wholly voracious, there are obvious moments wherein Orwell uses his skill as a writer of fiction, perhaps to keep readers more engaged. This essay will explore the elements of Shooting that…

Carroll’s argument of art-horror qualifies Gilman’s story by causing a horrified feeling in the audience. Gilman creates this feeling through the story’s setting. In the story, “The Nature of Horror”, Carroll explains that the human experience of art-horror is reliant on two necessary conditions: disgust feeling, and monsters tied with the sense of being threatened. Carroll states, “We shall presume that this is an emotional state whole emotion we call art-horror” (Carroll 52). According to…

. What is your initial impression of this work? – I liked this story because it always had me wanting to know what was happening next. The story kept me on the edge of my seat trying predict what would happen next. 2. What is the genre of this selection? – The genre of this excerpt is Science fiction, Martians appear on earth and soon after attacking the people who try to communicate with them. 3. What is the exposition of the story? What is the rising action or actions in this story? What is…

Simpson’s (1989) analysis of fictional dialogue focuses on the phatic communication of characters’ conversations in Flann O’Brien’s novel The Third Policeman in which he tries to reason three broad theoretical issues. First, he draws on a sociolinguistic framework designed for the analysis of naturally occurring conversation and applies it to the rather unusual dialogue which takes place between the characters in O’Brien’s novel with a hope that such an analysis will highlight the ways in which…

1. Context of the Story The answers to the following questions can help to establish the context of the story. • Who wrote the fiction? Sigrid Undset (20 May 1882 – 10 June 1949) was a Norwegian novelist who got an award from the Nobel which is “Prize for Literature” in 1928 (Wikipedia). According to nobleprize.org, her father’s Family is came from Østerdalen and they were one of the first settler in Grytdalen in the Sollien valley of the river Atna. Undset’s father, Ingvald Martin Undset, got…

TEXTS and WRITERS/DIRECTORS (preliminary): 1. Shutter Island- Martin Scorseses 2. Split- M.Night Shyamalan 3. The Secret Window -David Koepp 4. Identity- James Mangold EXPLAIN YOUR INITIAL REASONS FOR SELECTING THESE TEXTS I have chosen these texts because they all relate around the theme mental health. They all have characters that struggle to grasp what's real and what's not. All the characters suffer from split personality in my text. NOTES ON TEXT ONE • It’s hard to know what’s…

The point of view of this novel is first person with a central narrator. At the beginning of the novel, Huck introduces himself to the reader and also refers to “Mr. Mark Twain”. This immediately shows the reader than he, not Mark Twain will be narrating the novel. By having Huck as the narrator, it puts the story into his perspective, his interpretation, and his voice. The narrator voice of Huck is very effective in this novel because we really get a sense of his thought process in very black…

Imagination can be found in every person; it is a mental ability that drives a person, be it in a positive or negative way, into developing an opinion from something unknown to them. A person can be influenced, by their imagination, into taking risks, making decisions or seeing different aspects of their current circumstances. In Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, imagination came into play as a key factor of how Crusoe developed throughout the novel; because it opened his mind into seeing…