Narrative mode

One’s recollection of past events has a drastic impact on their narration. Multiple factors may affect one’s recollection, and consequently the credibility of their narration. Edgar Allen Poe was a writer, innovator, essayist and literary critic. He is attributed as the developer of short stories due to his many famous publications. In Poe’s short stories, the narration is in the first person. While this adds an interesting perspective, one cannot always trust the narrator’s recollection. Poe…

How do poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon present their ideas of war in their poems, Exposure and Does It Matter? Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon are two famous war time poets, who conveyed their first-hand experiences of war through the form of poems to enlighten people towards the reality of war, as shown in “Exposure” and “Does It Matter?”. Exposure is an emotionally powerful poem that expresses the reality of the brutal weather conditions that were endured by the soldiers in the…

Often a person can be conditioned to do a certain behavior, either by their own actions or influences from others, sometimes without realizing it. In two different novels that share a similar theme of racism, A Walk in The Night by Alex La Guma, and Maru by Bessie Head, the act of conditioning is explored. A Walk in The Night follows many different characters throughout the novel but mostly centers around the actions of Michael Adonis. Michael is a person of color in a coastal city of South…

In The Almond Tree by Michelle Corasanti, one main symbol is present throughout the book. This main symbol is the almond tree. The almond tree transitions from different representation as the characters and ideas evolve. A Palestinian family, known as Ichamd and his family, experienced the presence of the tree throughout their hardships. Within the book, the almond tree is a recurring symbol that represents hope, survival, and shelter. Foremost, the almond tree represents itself as hope. During…

The reason why I chose this genre is because I wanted to see more about it and what goes in each of the three stories. In all three stories there is something to be learned from the interactions of the people. The stories are similar and different in many ways. The things that I will be discussing are science and technology, The elements of science, critical aspects of society, human nature and society, and the theme. There are many scientific elements in all three stories, Some of the elements…

In this story we encounter a man attempting to tell us his side of a story, but we immediately begin to realize the man may not be the most reliable narrator. As the story unfolds before us we begin to see the narrator's accounting is fraught with leaps in logic and rampant paranoia, but it is not long until the deeds of the narrator catch up to him. In Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", we see the effect of guilt upon the conscience; even with the narrator's tenuous grasp of reality, the…

That Hideous Strength In the books “Out of the Silent Planet” and “Perelandra by C.S. Lewis he uses kind of the same way of thinking. We see it also in the continuation of his trilogy, in the novel “That Hideous Strength” also written by C.S. Lewis. He uses the same writing style, one that at first I couldn’t understand. I had to go back and reread some parts to comprehend what he was saying and kind of figure out the deeper meaning of things. Throughout the book, Lewis uses a different kind of…

There are many stories in Tim Winton’s short story collection book The Turning that connect characters together or feature characters from other stories, creating a link between them in some way. This essay is going to focus on the stories The Turning, Sand and Family; how Winton has connected them through the characters in the stories and the impact Winton intended to have on the audience. Three characters that are directly presented or mentioned in the three stories are Raelene, Max and Frank.…

Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, is a novel that provokes substantial ambiguity, uncertainty, and criticism regarding the narratives controversy when attempting to categorize the genuine intentions, and authenticity of virtue of the novel’s protagonist; Pamela. Importantly, the readers doubt stems from a variety of stylistic techniques that Richardson applies throughout the novel, consistently forcing his audience to shift their approach in drawing conclusions regarding the hidden character behind…

with its life foreshadows the conclusion. The comparison of the moth with the sky in the second paragraph further stresses the frailty of the small but determined insect. Through the mindful shift from personal narratives and the struggle of the moth, the author maintains a comparative narrative of her struggle. Although her size and the moth were incomparable, they both exhibited similar energy. The personification of the moth as a ‘he’ intends to invoke a common bond with the reader whereby…