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    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 us to Miss Gee’s last moment of her life – the narrator presents Miss Gee in the middle of her life up to her death. Throughout the whole poem‚ the narrator stays the same mocking Miss Gee and her life. Characters Miss Gee is the centre of the poem. The Doctor comes in late during the poem where he takes on an active

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    Magnificence pertains to somewhat the potential or the strength of a person. In the story‚ the reversal of gender assignments is not actually incidental. The magnificent one in the story does not only point out to the mother but to all women who finally had the strength to rise up against male abuse. The psychological oppression of women and children‚ which emerges into the light of consciousness once the mask of false chivalry is wrenched away. In the story “Magnificence”‚ the descriptions

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    director attempts to translate the first person narration is through the use of a single-perspective focus. The novel makes it quite clear that the narration is a first-person one‚ and the narrator is Michele. It is revealed early on with the line‚ “Then there was me‚ Michele” who the protagonist as well as the narrator is (Ammaniti 3). In the film‚ it is evident that Michele is the protagonist of the story by the way in which the camera lingers on him the longest; it cuts to him to register his emotions

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    Summary: In this opening chapter of the book‚ The Great Gatsby‚ they introduce the Narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ along with other characters. Nick opens the book reminiscing about his past upbringings and lessons his family taught him. Nick then visits his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom. Daisy and Tom are very rich and Tom is very arrogant‚ obnoxious‚ racist‚ and seems a bit uneducated. Tom does not try to hide his love affairs‚ and Daisy tries to set up Nick and her child hood friend‚ Jordan. At

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    Comparative Commentary

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    itself. The first extract is from a novel‚ which can be seen by a variety of techniques which are common for novels. The text is written from a first person narrative (“As I work I clear my mind”) and therefore shows a very personal view of the narrator. This can be seen by statements such as “Oh” which express an emotion or personal viewpoints such as the comment “copper and cinnamon are intoxicating”. One can also see that is an extract from a novel since there is neither introduction nor a conclusion

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    Darkness employs‚ broadly‚ a three framed narrative style. Conrad‚ the author‚ places an unnamed narrator aboard the Nellie with Marlow‚ who is the third narrator/frame. The unnamed narrator functions as both a teller of Marlow’s tale to us and a listener to Marlow. The significance of these frames can be analysed by looking at three effects which this arrangement produces. The usage of Marlow as narrator instead of Conrad himself became important due to Conrad’s anxiety to adopt an English point of

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    the narrator is using first person to describe what was happening and is verbalising their thoughts as they occurred. This type of narrative is a good way to make the reader feel only what the narrator feels‚ this is because it is in first person narrative therefore the story is very opinionated and one sided. The constant switch from the narrator’s perspective to a buzzard’s perspective has been done to make the reader believe that the narrator is reliable. This is because the narrator is using

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    an exploration of the paranormal or the paranoidal. Those who view the novel as being an exploration of the paranormal take events throughout the novel on face value‚ trusting the narrator to give the whole truth and nothing but. However those who read the novel with more cynical perspective begin to doubt their narrators version of events believing her paranoid or dishonest. In light of this knowledge I shall explore whether these theories are indeed “mutually exclusive” or whether the “ambiguity”

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    Chapter 1. This novel begins with the narrator returning to the Devon school he used to go 15 years ago‚ he’s disappointed on the way the school looks‚ the school looks preserved‚ newer-looking‚ unchanged. He also discovers while he goes around the school that his emotion of fear has changed as little as the buildings at his old school. The story is being narrated during the month of November‚ and since this is New Hampshire‚ it’s grey and wet. The narrator walks around the school naming 3 specific

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    first person we meet in the story is the narrator‚ and she’s a first person narrator. She has the point of view so what happens at the museum is turned over in her mind before we hear about it. Throughout the whole story she’s sitting at the bench‚ watching the Whistlejacket and the man’s absorption in the French girl. And there’s a good reason to call her an onlooker‚ because she’s just looking at the happening. The man‚ who is sitting next to the narrator‚ suddenly begins to talk with her about

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