Quirks mode

Rationale: The text type I use is and alternative ending to ‘her First ball’ by Katherine Mansfield. I have selected this text type as it will allow me analyse dive further into Leila’s personality. The piece will be written in a third person limited point of view as to follow the original point of view as katherine mansfield wrote it. The intended audience is anyone who relates to Liela and has ever experienced an epiphany where their entire view on something is changed and they are too…

Usually we find the heroine as a narrator in Shashi Deshpande’s works. She employs a kind of stream of consciousness technique. The narrative goes back and forth in time. Since there is nothing doctrinaire about her fiction, it won’t be proper to put her in the list of feminists. She simply portrays the meaning of being a woman in modern India. The authentic recreation of India is the outstanding feature of her stories as well as novels. There is nothing sensational or exotic about her India.…

Then we can use this to look into alternate modes of transportation. Transportation investments can also shape areas. Investments are usually a political matter. They can have a huge impact of the different neighborhoods, the way areas are laid out, and land values. The Intermodal Surface Transportation…

Character narrators are a way of looking at scenes through an individual’s eyes. Using this point of view creates a more personal story, but it can also form a biased, unreliable view. By introducing a second character narrator, the reader is given a second point of view that enforces the first narrator and strengthens the story. In Three Day Road, Joseph Boyden gives two character narrators, Xavier and Niska. The present narrative is of the characters travelling down the river to Niska’s home…

In the novels Youth and The Bluest Eye, the narrative is ambiguous to the characters. In The Bluest Eye, there are multiple narrative perspectives that equips a more knowledgeable response to the events of the novel. The novel jumps around in characters lives to explain a better perspective to why some characters act the way they do or how past events shape them to whom they are in current events. In Youth, the main character 's perspective is vague. The narrative expresses to what the character…

What is symbolism? Symbolism is a story element used by authors to give the reader a deeper understanding of the text. How do you identify symbolism? There are 3 steps. Step 1: summarize the text/chapter. Step 2: identify (repeated themes). Step 3: think what could this object stand for. Why is symbolism used? There are variety of reasons. Convey complex messages, connect story and theme, and show instead of tell. The symbols I’ll be using are from the short story, “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh”.…

In the short stories Antojos and The storyteller third person narration is used in the stories. Both stories have third person but they are divergent from each other, but also somewhat similar to each other in a way. Antojos uses third person limited point of view. Third person limited means the narrator only knows the thoughts and feeling of a character and in The storyteller third person omniscient is used. Omniscient point of view is similar to limited but the narrator knows everything like…

Connecting life and literature to point of view What is a point of view? How is a point of view connected to literature, and life? Our point of view changes every day we are on this earth. If you were stuck on a plane from 1920-2016 flying only 1000 feet the world would look so much different. Point of view is how we are able to see things through a character's eyes in a piece of literature. Conflict, characterization and narration are all connected in literature and life by point of view.…

While the problems of a foreign land might not initially attract some juvenile readers, the candor and simplicity of Perkins’ writing make not just the book, but the intellectual and political ideas behind the plot and theme, accessible. Short chapters help the book’s readability as well. Bamboo People is a novel that is skillfully told that we realize only much later that we’ve been educated to boot—which is as should be. The novel introduces not one but two different cultures. Perkins weaves…

Do you think that a pregnant woman can kill her husband? in the short story lamb to the slaughter written by Roald Dahl is about a pregnant married women named Mary Maloney that with a frozen lamb leg murders her detective husband Patrick Maloney that was cheating on her with another woman. The short story takes place in a small American home around the mid-1950s. ‘’lamb to slaughter’’ shows you should never underestimate females because they are capable of murder just as men are The author…