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  • Invisible Mans Identity
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    Ralph Ellison The Invisible Man Ralph Ellison manages to develop a strong philosophy through characterization in the Invisible Man. Ellison portrays the lonely narrators quest in struggling to search for his identity and an understanding of his times. The well development of the character lays out the foundation on the philosophy of finding and understanding himself. Through a labyrinth of corruption and deceit the narrator undergoes events that manage to enrich his experience and further contri...
  • Narrator In Bright And Morning Star
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    Focalization in Richard Wrights Bright and Morning Star 1. Introduction 32. Narration 4 3. Focalization 5 - 64. Conclusion 65. Bibliography 71. Introduction The presentation of events in narratology differs greatly with the purpose of the text. Certain events would seem less authentic if they were to be presented in a third-person narrative, other events just can't be described objectively within a first-person narrative. Sometimes the events call for a non-involved description but on the other ...
  • Faulkner's Narration
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    In his book, As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner pioneers new and interesting literary forms. His most obvious deviation from traditional novel writing was the new style of narration in which he used all the main characters as the narrator at one point or another. This allowed the reader to gain insight into the character's thoughts, and also to prove very interesting and entertaining. Faulkner also ignores all boundaries that sane people have placed upon the English language to keep it readable. F...
  • Marvin Macy And Miss Amelia
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    Cafe with Character Carson MacCullers wrote her novella, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, in third person. In this dramatic narrative, the narrator is an observer. In the novella, character serves to accent the narrators limited point of view. The motivations behind Miss Amelias, Cousin Lymons, and Marvin Macys actions are often a mystery to the narrator. Miss Amelia is the main character of the novella. She was a... dark, tall woman with bones and muscles like a man. (p. 4) Miss Amelia had a... stra...
  • Representations Of Masculinity And Femininity On Miguel Street
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    Representations of Masculinity and Femininity in Miguel Street It has been said about V.S. Naipaul's novel Miguel Street that 'One of the recurrent themes... is the ideal of manliness' (Kelly 19). To help put into focus what manliness is, it is important to establish a definition for masculinity as well as its opposite, femininity. Masculinity is defined as " Having qualities regarded as characteristic of men and boys, as strength, vigor, boldness, etc' while femininity is defined as 'Having qua...
  • Way The Narrator
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    In The Canterbury Tales Geoff ery Chaucer illuminates the na ve viewpoint of the narrator in the descriptions of the characters. This is shown by the way the narrator often extols the characters, despite some obvious discrepancies. The Cook is an example of this. The narrator describes the cook as being a more than adequate chef, yet in the middle of the description he throws in That on his shine a moral hadde he, (Chaucer 388). This passage is making reference to an ulcer on the Cook's shin, wh...
  • Communication Between The Narrator And The Signalman
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    The Signalman is a short story, which brings up great suspense and tension throughout the story, mainly through the main characters, the signalman and the narrator. At the beginning of the story the atmosphere is quite dull. The tension and suspense really starts to increase when the narrator first meets the signalman. The narrator first tries to start the conversation by asking the signalman if there was a path in which he could come down to talk to him. There was a calm atmosphere and a high a...
  • Changes In Berlin
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    A Response to Goodbye to Berlin I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking (Isherwood 1). This phrase comes from the first page of Christopher Isherwood's most popular documentary styled novel, Goodbye to Berlin (1939). In this novel, Isherwood managed to establish a sort of matter-of-fact style by blending fact and fiction and achieving a na ve, honest style for the narrator. The phrase I am a camera often appears in his work indicating his belief that a narrato...
  • Several Stories Concerning Different Styles Of Narration
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    "The role of the narrator influences the type of relationship we have not only with him or her but also with the story" (Landy 75). This quote was taken from our Literary Studies book in which we have read several stories concerning different styles of narration. Narration is one of the most important components of a story. The characters, plot, setting, and theme are also significant, however the narrator sets the mood and also the pace of the story. Two good examples of narration is the short ...
  • Spotted Horses And Mule In The Yard
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    Spotted Horses and Mule in the Yard are two short stories by William Faulkner that deal with comedic animal chases. Although both provide entertaining examples of Faulkner work in very similar settings, on the scale of literary value, Spotted Horses rises above Mule in the Yard in depth and insight. This superiority is result of both its narrative style and character development, which causes Spotted Horses to produce an overall more powerful effect than Mule in the Yard. The most notable and im...

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