Nonlinear narrative

Each book is unique and can touch each heart differently. The level of empathy we feel towards a character is mainly based on how the author has decided to portray the character and the situation. In The Outsider by S.E. Hinton, we see a boy (with the name of Ponyboy) whose group is isolated and (as the title states) the outsiders of the society. In The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time by Mark Haddon, the main character (Christopher) is also an outsider but not due to his wealth but…

Chapter Ones Successful authors create stories that come alive for the reader. While there are many ways to do this, grabbing the reader’s interest in the first chapter is essential. Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, and Charlotte Bronte use setting and character development in the first chapter of their books to spark the reader’s interest. Not only do each of these authors introduce the setting and characters well, they also present the relationships among them all. Emma, published in 1815, is set…

The story “Wake” by Lisa McMann plays on the interest of the unknown and kept me interested as the plot twist never stopped. It is a fast paced story based on timelines of the dreams of Janie Hannagan. Her mind is incapable of ignoring another’s dreams when they fall asleep in her presence. Her determination and strength of living with this is captivating and almost beyond belief. At times throughout the store, I think it would be so mysterious to be able to know what others are dreaming;…

Critiques of social circumstances firmly rooted in reality may seem to be more appropriately suited by arguments with foundations in fact rather than fiction, but there is also much to be said about the merits of storytelling in these social commentaries. Reason and fantasy do not have to be separate to make an effective and compelling case. Fiction can aid the truth by putting emphasis on certain aspects of it, modeling what could be, and eliciting an emotional response from the audience. In…

When approaching a film adaptation of a novel, it is important to consider the various differences between the two mediums. Adaptations are mostly criticised on the basis of the film's fidelity to the original events of the novel references are constantly made to what is left out or changed, instead of what is there. More than often a three hundred page novel is made into a two-three hour movie, and a great deal of content is sacrificed .Screenwriters and filmmakers may attempt to remain…

History is a subject based on story telling. Sometimes, it is based off letters and written documents. History is not written down for others to learn in a nonbiased opinion in the present moment. Historians must go through these documents later and decide what is biased, and what is not. They must read about an event from multiple perspectives and try and pick out what happened and what is an opinion. With the information they have, they must make connections and guesses to fill in the missing…

Abstract: To what extent is government censorship applied in both The Giver by Lois Lowry and in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell? Throughout this extended essay, the theme of government censorship has been analyzed in both the novels The Giver and Nineteen Eighty-Four. A thorough study of the theme was done, which enabled me to compare how similar and different the uses of it are, and as well the relevance of it in both novels. This essay begins by explaining the important events that…

Among the major themes in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is the quest to comprehend the interactions between people and groups of people in other words the senses of Otherness. The Other varies from a person to another and from a generation to another, The first thing we have to do is to identify the Other by exploring it in Lee's novel, Claudia Durst Johnson states in her book In To Kill a Mockingbird: Threatening Boundaries that the work "invites the conclusion that we reach some sense of…

Kirill Tšernov FLGR.01.370 28.10.2014 Transgression of a boundary between the past and the present The theme of transgression is a pervasive theme throughout the A.S.Byatt’s novel, Possesion: A Romance. To better understand and study it, one needs to return to the name of the novel and consider its implications. The novel itself can be read as a meditation on the different meanings of this word, as the reader is presented with different kinds of possession (economical, sexual, cultural, even…

Narrative self: Paul Ricoeur When the self is constructed through narrative or story then the focus of human existence is laid upon their phenomenal experiences. It brings about a sense of dramatisation and operation of “emplotment” which configures the diverse events and actions of human lives and turn it into a meaningful whole. The concept of self and identity is fashioned by adaptation of plots from cultural stock of stories and myths. In psychological, psychoanalytical and humanistic…