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Naturally, a story told in first-person point of view is flawed. However, the author Ken Kesey picks Chief Bromden, the least suspecting of all characters, to narrate his book One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. As Bromden tells the story from his perspective, he is able to gain credibility from the audience because he faithfully recounts not only the misadventures and mayhem in the ward but also the story of his personal breakthrough. In the beginning, Bromden tells us that he is under that…

The literatures The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite and Like Water for Chocolate share similarities in the change of literature written in different versions. In the different versions of the literature, the change of words the authors use to narrate the literature changes the significance of the narration and the reader 's’ impressions of the narratives in which causes the reading to be misleading. The change of words in the different version of The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite and Like Water for…

Literature in the Victorian Era, that would later be referred to as “Science Fiction”, consists of an array of elements. This reflection will focus on the following four elements; dense physical description, the idea of the lonely scientist, the story’s own materiality, and the form of the frame narrative. With little dialogue, “The Lifted Veil” is heavy with description. When Latimer recalls his entrance into Geneva, his physical description fits with the science fiction formal element, “dense…

which was menaced. He had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that there never was and never could have been any rivalry between us. I was not the same quality as he” (Knowles 59). When Gene is on the tree with Finny, his emotions gain control of him and make him jounce the tree on purpose thus causing the accident. The book version expresses Gene’s feelings appropriately, which enables the audience to personally and emotionally understand the character. This also makes the…

Chapter 1 - Pick Up Lines and Open(ing) Seduction Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front begins the chapter with Paul Baumer and his classmates replenishing themselves with dietary needs. According to Foster’s How to Read Novels Like a Professor, “...first sentence...It establishes the main family of the novel…” (24). With that in mind, Remarque has already implied that the time frame should be around a place of war: “We are at rest five miles behind the front” (1). Remarque…

William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying is an absurdist comedy that follows the Bundren family on their journey to the fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi to bury the deceased matriarch of the family, Addie. Addie’s husband, Anse, and their five children of varying ages traverse the countryside to Jefferson to fulfill Addie’s dying wish of being buried alongside her family in town; however, each character has his or her own personal motive for going on the trip. Fifteen individual characters…

was verbally—this is where dictation is defined—as the priest takes on the role of scribe, writing the words down as they are told. However, while dictation in this case means a transferring of information from verbal to written words, there is a control or dictation in another sense. As a highly esteemed religious figure, the priest acting as the scribe can add to the words of Kempe, providing more theological language to communicate his superior religious affiliation compared to Kempe’s as she…

I feel that Baldwin chose this excerpt as the epigraph for the Giovanni’s Room because, the line itself it alludes to many of the key themes explored throughout the novel like masculinity, sexual identity, and being present. Placing the excerpt in the context of “Song of Myself” reveals even more about the idea of self-acceptance that Baldwin also explores in the novel; Many of the lines leading up to the final couplet begin with “How he,” as if to present a sort of distance between the narrator…

In Toni Morrison’s, The Bluest Eye, the author uses point of view as a method to highlight her way of writing. To display a different view of the occurring events throughout the novel, an array of narrators are used. The basic intention of doing this is to give us, as the reader an insight, without denouncing anyone in particular. This technique also allows certain characters, such as Claudia and Pecola, to be much more intensely emphasized. Throughout the narration an accumulation of various…

The events in many stories follow a specific pattern in order to make the storyline interesting and relatable. Joseph Campbell calls this occurrence the monomyth or in other words, The Hero’s Journey. The Hero’s Journey is separated into three parts: The Departure, Initiation, and The Return. Each of these sections consist of smaller events that mostly all happen within stories that obey the rules of the monomyth. One of the multiple movies that exemplifies this is Mulan. In this movie, the main…