Alice Munro's an Ounce of Cure

A good story is about something the reader finds interesting or can relate to. As readers, we learn about a character through what they do, what others say about them and through what they say or think of themselves. The way characters’ mannerism and physical appearance are described also tells the reader more about them. Characters are created by the author to portray a specific purpose, the choices, thoughts and actions of characters all contribute to the story’s theme. The reader most commonly relate to a specific character in a story, thus plays characterisation a very important role in storytelling. Therefore, are the narrative point of view, genre and style of critical importance, that the reader understands and interprets the characters

Also, the five characteristic features of a narrative are examined in chapter 8 of Everyone’s an Author. The first characteristic is that a narrative

In An Ounce of Cure by Alice Munro, it tells a story about a woman who is looking back on her teenage years, full of love, rye, and scotch. This happens in the timeframe in which the teenager is supposed to be babysitting for a family called the Berryman’s in a small town. The older woman reminiscing about her past as the teenager and going through the heartbreak and everything with her significant other is what led her to drinking the night that she was babysitting. There are other characters such as Joyce and Kay who influence the young teenager on telling them why exactly she is loathing over the breakup with her ex-boyfriend Martin. I believe that the “ounce of cure” is referring to the alcohol as a glorious thing to fix something, but

Another component of the story’s allure is the role in it that the concept of narrative accrual plays. Narrative accrual refers to the collection of smaller narratives to form a longer one, such as with history, culture, and autobiographies (Bruner, 18-20). One of the most significant manifestations of

Having each story been written in a third-person narrative form, the reader knows the innermost feelings of the

Stories use narrative to involve the responder in a range of experiences. Storytellers use narrative techniques to establish a setting and shape the characters personality. This is shown in Henry Lawson’s short stories the drover’s wife and the loaded dog as well as Roger hargreaves picture book little miss sunshine.

Narrative: An individual intro outlining their thoughts on the conclusions of their writings, and how individuals understand the meaning of their lives through the process of narrating it (Andrews et al., 2013).

you analyze how the novelist reveals the values of the character and the nature of the character’s

Some people say that when telling a story individuals reference experiences that they have gone through in their lives. However, this idea of writing may be difficult if the writer is describing a person completely different from themselves. Although personal experiences may help a writer, an open mind with an imagination and allowing the story to tell itself are qualities which are what helps writers create great stories. Eudora Welty, who wrote “A Worn Path”, and Nadine Gordimer, with “A Chip of Glass Ruby”, were able to depict and describe women from different ethnic backgrounds from themselves.

Society tries to place many rules upon an individual as to what is acceptable and what is not . One must decide for themselves whether to give in to these pressures and conform to society’s projected image, or rather to resist and maintain their own desired self image. In the story “Boys and Girls” by Alice Munro, Munro suggests that this conflict is internal and external and a persons experiences in life will determine which of these forces will conquer. In terms of the unnamed protagonist’s experiences in the story, it becomes clear just how strong the pressure of society to conform really is, as it overcomes and replaces the girl’s self image.

It is also assumed that the act of telling a story can provide insight into past, present and future events (Espinoza, 1997). By going through this process, individuals can find the importance of certain events and assign roles to people who are a part of their story. This act can allow a client to find new meaning and understanding to their reality (Espinoza, 1997). Not only is a

In this story, Alice Munro describes a slice of life story for a young girl who has her first encounter of being dumped. Though, in her family they rarely drink if at all, not the same was expected of her. She herself thought of her mother as a very cunning and convincing person even though she was mostly very unemotional but was able to make a good impression when necessary. She was shaped by her inability to come to terms with her breakup through how she got drunk and by almost committing suicide via aspirin though, she stopped herself after the sixth aspirin. It shows how her character developed to be able to relive those memories with a hint of fondness for she wouldn’t be who she was today without them. It shaped her to be a more to be

    The literary technique of characterization is often used to create and delineate a human character in a work of literature. When forming a character, writers can use many different methods of characterization. However, there is one method of characterization that speaks volumes about the character and requires no more than a single word - the character's personal name. In many cases, a personal name describes the character by associating him with a certain type of people or with a well known historical figure. Therefore, since the reader learns the character's name first, a personal name is a primary method of characterization; it

Our autobiographical narratives also support the construction of identity, by using cultural models of self narration as well as drawing on our own experiences, who we associate with, when and where, all have an impact on how we tell our stories (Hewitt, 2007). This serves in understanding how identities are fluid and are always changing from situation to situation, an aspect which anyone from the psychosocial school of thought

The style of the delivery of the plot is an important aspect of literature. The way in which an author uses narrative is what gives the story substance and life. The plot of any story is just a patterns of events that have a beginning, middle and end. However, the narrative is the medium through which the story is presented and can therefore affect a text and shape the meaning and structure of the plot. The most common form of narrative in literature is the use of a narrator, which is a character that relays the story through written rhetoric.