Narratology

Film, in general, is a narrative medium, or, at least, a medium of many narrative capacities” (Kuhn). For a film to be a narrative it must present a story with a series of events in ways that imply connections between one event and the next. Narratives must, therefore, have constituent parts, which are also discernibly related; however, the type of relationship may vary greatly. Generally we expect a cause-and-effect relationship: one event has the effect of causing another event, which causes…

1. In Freytag's pyramid, what is rising action? Rising action is the when there is an event that let's say begins at the bottom of a plot, and slowly as things occur within the time period of its starting, then that event or situation will rise in anticipation. 2. In the classic Hollywood structure, who is the hero and what does the hero do? In the hollywood structure the hero is one who has a physical action goal and one personally, the hero gets blocked by barriers that are usually caused by…

Reflection My designed intention was to enhance students’ comprehension of the story by drama. Thereby when I planned the lesson, I followed Bredikyte’s model of play: narrative play pedagogy. Bredikyte (2011) identified three fundamental elements in the narrative play pedagogy: one chosen narrative, dialogical form of activities and dramatization of the chosen narrative. Initially, I provided support in helping students to understand the narrative – within students’ zone of proximal…

Secondly, the narrator failed to achieve the liberation he expected to gain after his double’s death, instead his life turned into a living death. Through out the story, the narrator is aware of the control that he has over others, as a result of the wish to save himself from his uncontrollable behavior, he created the second William Wilson; his double that functions as his conscience and helps him control his desire for manipulation and power. The narrator has confessed that he could have lived…

While reading short stories, narrators provide insight and point of view to the reader. Specifically, I think Sammy the narrator from “A&P” and the 12-year-old boy narrator in “The Secret Lion” have good amount about each other to compare to one another. In “A&P” the narrator is Sammy who is a 19-year-old boy who is a cashier at a local supermarket. While the 12-year-old boy who is the narrator in “The Secret Lion” is just a middle schooler who is getting caught up in all the big changes that…

A story is a chain of events depicted through a person’s point of view. It follows one or more characters through a series of different events and places. A good story catches readers’ attention right from the beginning and keep them interested through thought provoking characters. Once the story captures a reader’s attention, the interest is maintained by a series of events that put the reader through an emotional roller-coaster. The central characteristics that contribute to a successful story…

Meanwhile, the author seems to have employed a narrative world, a form of story space often completed by the imagination of readers’ base on real world experience as well as cultural knowledge. Many readers would consider the narrative world as a unified, coherent and materially existing or accessible geographical entity. In “The Fox“, readers would assume that permanent barriers separate the key locations of the major actions and events even though the author hardly mentions such barriers.…

In the novel, The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp, by Rick Yancey, there is a very complicated yet intriguing setting that changes numerous times. In the story, Alfred travels the world with an elderly man named Bennacio on the search for Mogart, an evil, bloodthirsty man who stole the ancient Excalibur. Although they travel the world, the most important setting in the story would be Knoxville Tennessee in the present day because of how different thing are in different areas of the…

Le Khuc Hoang Uyen – 1AH DEP IS – Storyboard- Text and Movement Context: Rural Vietnam in 1930s-1940s (under French colonization). Frame 1: Community and extreme poverty (a group of performers perform a full traditional farming dance that illustrates the burden of agricultural activities) The scene opens with narration about the abject poverty in rural areas in Northern Vietnam under French colonization. Accompanying the narration is a full farming dance that illustrates the burden of…

There are really four major parts of a narrative. Narratives include the point of view, dialogue, shift of time, and symbolism. Almost all writers use these parts in their writing. Two examples of these types of writers are Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass. Although not all of the parts were composed the same way they are there in writings by both authors. Point of view is a major part of a narrative. The point of view can change the narrative immensely. In Mark Twain’s “Life on the…