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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…

While some differences between the stories “A&P” and the story called Miss Brill are evident, their similarities are distinct. Both the author of “A&P” and the author of “Miss Brill” present their stories from the main characters point of view. Sammy the narrator of “A&P” shows his acute sense of observation and his ability to notice even the slightest detail about some of the other characters in the story. The main similarity between the two characters are the conflict in which every event they…

In order to thoroughly tell a story, one must have a specific point of view to assist in the flow of the story. The point of view an author chooses determines how the readers understand and comprehend the story. Different point of views of the same idea lead to different ways of understanding the piece. In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Haddon uses first-person point of view. “My name is Christopher John Francis Boone” (Haddon 2). Told through the eyes of Christopher, an…

With the contrast that happens between the characters of the novel, Virginia Woolf utilizes the consciousness of her characters to be the narrator in the novel “Mrs. Dalloway”. To have a person’s inner thoughts be the narrator it gives the novel an ability to back and forth from a person’s mind that is comprehending their thoughts, emotions, and physical reaction to an event that is happening while still mentioning the details of the outside world events. By doing so it was deemed fit as a work…

In some cases, the writer will opt for a narrative mode of ‘showing’ r ather than ‘telling’, electing not just to report an encounter retrospectively, but rather to reconstruct in a novelistic fashion. A degree of fictionality is thus inherent in all tr avel writers. The genre of travel writing and fiction intersect e ach other sharing many complexities of the form. Travel writing, however, remains a loosely defined body of literature. One’s ready assumption, probably, would be that travel…

“The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, he took a bath,” (3). In the book An Abundance of Katherines by John Green. Colin Singleton is a prodigy, not a genius. When he gets dumped by Katherine the XIX, the nineteenth Katherine that Colin has had a relationship with, he finds himself thinking about having a Eureka moment. A Eureka moment that will lead Colin from a child prodigy to genius…

The story from the Reader which I have taken inspiration from is 'A Rose for Emily'. What makes this story most appealing is its stream of consciousness style, anonymous narration and themes of memory and the past. William Faulkner's “A Rose for Emily” focuses on the life and death of Emily Grierson. Through a technique entitled 'stream of consciousness' the reader is provided with the thoughts of the narrator or character. The term stream of consciousness was initially coined by a psychologist…

Fantasies are like landscapes with no real ending and a place where desires can run freely but at the cost of one´s own mind. The Fantasies inside ¨Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been¨ show Connie´s freedom to an extent, in which her own knowledge and persona become her crutch in the aftermath of her conflict. But, however, In ¨Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” Joyce Oates uses Connie struggle against Arnold to portray her fear of adulthood as well as symbolize her innocence being…

An expeditious overdose of reality shapes Harlem’s youth, showing them how much they need to work against the status quo and bring upon change. In “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara, the narrator, Sylvia, goes on a field trip into New York City and is angered by the unfair distribution of wealth that she experiences. A neighborhood college-educated woman, Miss Moore, inspires Sylvia to transform her anger into ambition and activism. To end the short story, Sylvia pledges that “ain’t nobody gonna…