events consisting of an outline of the action of a narrative or a drama. It can be conceived as the design and intention of narrative. It is the structure or organization of events that make up a fictional story; the aspects that shape a story and move it in a certain direction. It can also be thought of as logic or the syntax of discourse, that generates its chronological propositions through progression. It makes up the basic concept of narrative and fulfills our experience of reading. This…
Realism subscribes to a more narrative, social based ideology while Formalism believes that the art of cinema comes from the mastery of technical aspects. Within these two kinds of filmmaking, many theorists have emerged including Bazin, who had a humanist approach to film. Formalism on the other hand, is the theory that the technical aspects of film are meant to create the world the audience is seeing, thus making it more impactful and more artful than the narrative attached to it. I align…
I have made. I love all expressive modes of writing, but the response one gets can differ greatly depending on the reader, therefore, I do not like getting feedback on writing. However, when I write for an implied audience that does not get to know my words, I feel like a speaker in a large auditorium, boldly proclaiming my truths to the cold, silent stone. This simultaneous desire for a reader and dread of a reader’s response creates an overall ambivalence towards writing– a love of creating…
Ultimately, In the Skin of a Lion narratives reveals the significance of…
‘The Tribe’ by Michael Mohammed Ahmad is reliant upon literary devices to elevate the emotional impact upon the reader. Complex events in the book are often presented as simplistic and understated through the narrative voice of the child. Such sentences juxtapose the deep and dramatic musings of the old narrator. The literary devices, such as metaphor, simile and characterisation, are used in an original way which sometimes mask the dark undercurrents of the situation. This is present in the…
Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell has two narratives: a young woman named Ree Dolly completing a quest to find her Dad and the story of how she shapes her internal desire to save her family. Typically, culture mediates desire in texts, but Winter’s Bone develops a protagonist that goes against societal oppression to fix a situation typical of her culture. The novel avoids the contrived “journey” story by presenting her desires through flashbacks. This narrative technique is chosen to emphasize…
After writing my narrative, I feel that I told the story quite well. I believe I did because my personal narrative takes the reader on my journey to reading with confidence. In the text I give the readers insight into why I struggled with reading out loud and how I overcame it. I think that my piece of writing can be improved by creating more descriptive memories. For example, in the first two paragraph I describe my teacher Mrs. Robinson, but I never describe the atmosphere of the classroom…
theme is portrayed. In the case of the Love Medicine, the homecoming is linked to sadness. At the very end of the novel when Grandpa Kapshaw dies, his spirit is still within Grandma Kapshaw’s home. Grandma Kapshaw describes Grandpa’s spirit as coming “back even after death to claim me [Grandma] to his side” (Erdrich 626). This can be interpreted as Grandpa coming home to Grandma because he finally is in his right of mind as he conquered his death and his love is coming home to Grandma Kapshaw.…
Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried presents an essentially contradictory narrative premise. Moreover, O’Brien presents himself as the protagonist, narrator, and author of the collection while declaring these roles mutually exclusive. Such oppositions force the reader to employ a synthetic and self-referential analysis to comprehend the internally oppositional narrative. In doing so, one finds that O’Brien’s systematic blurring of definitions accentuates his experiential perspective, rather…
Then he would not be able to get across that the story is more centered towards a love story. When the narrator describes where they live in the exposition, the narrator gives us background info like how they are really poor. So when it is revealed that Della is saving up for Christmas, but only has a dollar eighty-six, it drives that…