Literature provides the opportunity for authors to use words to describe a story, whether true or fiction. The reader is provided details to have an imaginary movie playing out in their mind while reading the story. The reader is connected with the characters, the environment, and the emotion experienced during the story. In this essay, I will be utilizing the formalist approach to review a story and further explore literature.…
Through the use of vibrant diction, syntax, and ever changing tone, the author is able to create a dramatic, yet sorrowful story that affects the reader on many levels.…
An unreliable perspective is used through the text, employing a narrative voice which results in ambiguity, leading the reader to think about the reality of the novel.…
(Warning: This novel contains some explicit language. If this is an issue for you or your child, please contact the English Department Chair at karthur@bcps.org to discuss. An alternate assignment can be created.)…
Explore the author’s words, and why he has chosen this type of language in this text particularly to identify with his audience.…
Characters are what draw the reader into a work of fiction. Analyzing another person’s thoughts and feelings is fascinating, so it is crucial that an author depicts a complex character that will occupy the reader’s minds. Many characters surprise us through the course of a story, developing in unexpected ways. An author can use various literary devices to reveal their characters gradually. Hernando Téllez wrote a short story called ‘Just Lather, That’s All’ that contains two contrasting characters. ‘The Harness’, which was written by Ernest Buckler, also includes very strong individuals. They are both portrayed in detail and they leave no doubt in the reader’s mind of the nature of these characters. The method of these depictions varies considerably while accomplishing the same goal.…
The map is of a local light rail which is now discontinued; already dead by the time you read the map. The story is The Man On The Stairs by Miranda July, included in her debut collection of stories No One Belongs Here More Than You. The story begins upon the realization that the main character is going to die, to be murdered next to her lover. Both capture a quiet and ultimate suffering- we begin knowing the end will not be what we wish it was.…
In this part, the backgrounds of the author and the story are given in order to inform the readers a complete comprehension of the text to be analyzed.…
One of the outstanding features in this text was the use of characterization. Having the novel told through the mind of Bruno, a nine year old, was…
In analysing this story we must point out its three main features: 1) the effect of striking concreteness and simplicity; 2) the impression of a melancholy meditating tone; 3) the implication suggested by the author as the ultimate stylistic effect.…
The exposition begins when Rosa and Andrew come to the cinema. Here the author uses simile – “carpet of some green material that yielded like springing turf” to underline the luxury of the cinema. Such epithets like “voluptuous stillness”, “hot darkness”, “chocolate uniform” shows the atmosphere of the cinema.…
Within this story there are three clearly marked stages. These are not only characterised by changes of attitude and of personality in the main characters, but are also characterised by the emersion of certain themes which are central to the story.…
The text under analysis belong to the psychological type and description type as it is concerned mainly with the emotional actions of the characters. This text is narration with elements of dialogues. The style of written prose is formal. Author mainly uses past tenses, but present – in dialogues.…
Most of authors or writers are telling their emotion, opinion, thoughts, and feeling through their masterpiece. They usually make a story and smuggle their opinion or thoughts into the story. Sometimes the reader does not realize about it because they hide them well behind the story they made. Some of the writers use a narrator to be a mediator for them to deliver their opinion or thoughts about something. For example when the writer wants to express their protest about their family background and he or she cannot tell anyone or when the writer thoughts about his or her environment, so that they will express it through their story. It happens sometimes but not all of the writers do this. Talking about narrator, this is a very important aspect in a story. Narrator is somebody who tells a story. Narrator will guide the reader where the story goes, why the story happens, and also how the story happens. The concept of the story and what the narrator role of the story is called narratology. It would be better if we know the definition of it first. Narratology is one of literature approaches that examines the ways of narrative structures between our perception of both cultural artifacts and the world around us. To understand narratology theory we have to know the difference between these three important entities. They are story, narrative, and narration. According to Gerard Genette, the story generally corresponds to a series of events and actions that are told by someone (the narrator), and represented in some final form, producing a narrative. As a field of study, narratology looks at the internal mechanisms of narrative, the form taken by a narrated story. Narratology has some branches that can be used for analyzing literary texts. Such as narrative mood, narrative instance, level, and time. This essay will discuss and analized David Lodge’s Changing Places using…
“The imitation of action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in language with pleasurable accessories, each kind brought in separately in the parts of the work in a dramatic, not in a narrative form with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.”…