“Write about the ways Auden tells the story in the poetic piece ‘Miss Gee’?” Through the ballad of ‘Miss Gee’ Auden tells the story of the character Miss Edith Gee this is achieved in a variety of ways. The poetic piece is a ballad intended to be read to the tune of ‘St James’ Infirmary’. Auden has created a regular pattern of quatrains as well as a regular rhythm which progresses the general flow of the poem and creates the atmosphere of a story for the reader. The initial exposition is extremely
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’How does Auden tell the story in Miss Gee?’ I think Auden tells the story in Miss Gee in a way which makes you so engaged it feels disturbing to read about Miss Gee’s life and death. The poem on the whole is very short‚ representing the fact that Miss Gee’s life seems insignificant. Auden starts off the poem by saying "Let me tell you a little story". This is already implying that Miss Gee and her life story will probably perceived as insignificant by the reader‚ which is representative of
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can see the character of Miss Gee establishing. Through the use of ‘Miss’ we learn that she is single. Moreover‚ the first stanza shows that this poem uses a first person narrator as it states ‘let me tell you a little story’. Not only does this show that the narrator knows Miss Gee on a personal level but also the opening resembles a bed time story. The writer uses the word ‘little’ perhaps to indicate that Miss Gee’s life was insignificant. Furthermore‚ the idea of Miss Gee being insignificant and
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MISS GEE Scenes and Places 83 Clevedon Terrace‚ ’Church Bazaar’‚ Miss Gee’s dream at a palace than into a place of the unknown where no objects are there but her and the vicar having sex‚ during summer Miss Gee got on her bicycle and passed lovers down the street‚ she visits a clinic and meets Doctor Tomas. A hospital emerges as she is taken there‚ she gets hanged up in the anatomy room where Oxford students dissect her. Time and Sequence Told retrospectively‚ the omniscient narrator takes
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Write about the ways Hosseini tells the story in chapter 22 - The voices that represent aspects of old and new Afghanistan (Assef - Taliban‚ Farid - How Afghanistan used to be) - Amir’s constantly thinking of/ aspiring to be like Baba (‘I wished he were standing alongside me now. Baba would have busted through the front doors and demanded to be taking to the man in charge’ Page 239) - Constantly thinking about America/Soraya (Marks on Assef similar to those of homeless people he saw in San Francisco
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Write about the ways Browning tells the story in My Last Duchess The story focuses on the key events of the painting‚ the marriage between the Duke and the past Duchess‚ the possible murder of the Duchess and the yet to be new wife. The story being told is of the relationship between the Duke and former Duchess. Browning adopts numerous narrative techniques. Browning uses the form of a dramatic monologue to help the story progress. For instance ’That’s my Last Duchess’ shows that there is one
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Write about some of the ways Fitzgerald tells the story in Chapter 1 In the first chapter of The Great Gatsby‚ the reader is introduced to the main characters in the novel‚ including the narrator Nick. It also outlines Nick’s background‚ including his upbringing and new life in New York’s prestigious West Egg. It is within this chapter that the reader is first introduced to the fundamental themes of the novel - money and ideas of social class - and this sets the tone for the rest of the book. The
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Write about some of the ways Fitzgerald tells the story in chapter 6. Fitzgerald uses Nick to introduce Gatsby’s past as “James Gatz" and his evolution into “Jay Gatsby”. Nick narrates entire the story retrospectively‚ resulting in the narration of Gatsby’s evolution containing a greater amount of Nick’s interpretations of Gatsby’s past‚ along side factuality. This is especially prominent as Nick describes Gatsby telling him “…all this very much later‚ but I’ve put it down here with the idea of exploding
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Write About The Ways Browning Tells The Story- My Last Duchess Immediately Browning titles the story with a hint that suggests the story will describe ownership of one of many Duchess’. It also suggests through the name ’Duchess’ that it is coming from a royal background rather than simply saying ’woman’ or ’wife’. The story is about a Duke who decides to remove his wife from his life out of paranoia and jealousy‚ by murdering her. Browning is the writer and the listener‚ the Duke is the speaker
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Write about the ways Hosseini opens the story in chapter 1 Chapter 1 opens with a unknown first person narrative. We are not introduced to the narrator until the end of Chapter 2‚ Amir. The effects of this remaining unnamed makes us concentrate on what the narrator is introducing us to. He is the central character of this story is coloured by Amir’s personal reactions and emotions. It opens with “I became what I am today” and ending with the same focus. The result of this referring back to the
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