Quirks mode

In this story we encounter a man attempting to tell us his side of a story, but we immediately begin to realize the man may not be the most reliable narrator. As the story unfolds before us we begin to see the narrator's accounting is fraught with leaps in logic and rampant paranoia, but it is not long until the deeds of the narrator catch up to him. In Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", we see the effect of guilt upon the conscience; even with the narrator's tenuous grasp of reality, the…

That Hideous Strength In the books “Out of the Silent Planet” and “Perelandra by C.S. Lewis he uses kind of the same way of thinking. We see it also in the continuation of his trilogy, in the novel “That Hideous Strength” also written by C.S. Lewis. He uses the same writing style, one that at first I couldn’t understand. I had to go back and reread some parts to comprehend what he was saying and kind of figure out the deeper meaning of things. Throughout the book, Lewis uses a different kind of…

There are many stories in Tim Winton’s short story collection book The Turning that connect characters together or feature characters from other stories, creating a link between them in some way. This essay is going to focus on the stories The Turning, Sand and Family; how Winton has connected them through the characters in the stories and the impact Winton intended to have on the audience. Three characters that are directly presented or mentioned in the three stories are Raelene, Max and Frank.…

Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, is a novel that provokes substantial ambiguity, uncertainty, and criticism regarding the narratives controversy when attempting to categorize the genuine intentions, and authenticity of virtue of the novel’s protagonist; Pamela. Importantly, the readers doubt stems from a variety of stylistic techniques that Richardson applies throughout the novel, consistently forcing his audience to shift their approach in drawing conclusions regarding the hidden character behind…

to the reader. A common writing strategy is the modes of persuasion which are devices employed to make an appeal to the audience like ethos, pathos and logos. Analyzing the writing strategies of Malcolm Gladwell in “The Science of Shopping” and Attention Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell: Stephanie Clifford and Quentin Henry uses the the modes of persuasion to its best effect. lOGOS In clifford and henry’s writing he introduces the first mode of persuasion known as logos, it is the appeal…

It is widely believed that human beings cannot escape death. Virginia Woolf’s narration in the story “The Death of the Moth” displays the battle between life and death, which is never won. The writer employs rhetorical devices such as fragmentation and tone, as well as metaphors to deliver his message and advance the feeling of pity in the reader. In addition, Woolf attentively uses metaphors and other literary devices in a manner that agrees with the shifting of the tone all through the…

This class has been one of my most time consuming, but arguably favorite class, and I’ve gained the most useful knowledge from it. This class caused me to fight my own predetermined notions of how a paper is supposed to look like, it has also caused me to look more in depth in every aspect of my writing, especially in comparison to my other classes. I’ve never had such a difficult time receiving a good grade on a paper than I did in this class, nor have I had such a hard time actually…

“Bayaan Karo”: Tell me a story Kaun Hai Bayaan? (Who is Bayaan?) “Bayaan” is a local-impact initiative located in the state of Maharashtra in India, that is dedicated to enabling communities to reclaim their agency for narration by reimagining their positionality as subjects of narratives, to consumers of narratives. Kyun Bayaan Karein? (Why should we narrate?) This project is centered around highlighting the privilege of consumption. Consumption is a consumer-driven and producer…

Bryson Miguel’s “Until Something Happens” is a postmodernist, deconstructionist short story that depicts the entropic nature of language and implies that, despite efforts to apply order and meaning to our words, we are only as effectively understood as someone else effectively understands. Miguel’s story also suggests that the true significance of our stories and life experiences are often ambiguous. There is no single and objective meaning to discover, but rather the subjective act of…

3.3. The Third Trope: The Autobiographical A theory of literary journalism has to go beyond the surface news stories and to conduct in-depth exploration of real lives through the unique combination of history, novel, and autobiography. It delves deeply into further issues than a standard news story could, and endows the stories with a form that appropriated tools and techniques previously confined to fiction. By so doing, literary journalism challenges the traditional journalistic convention…