Kerry Howley's Narrative Voice

In “Lost in America” by Douglas McGray, he writes about the need to improve the foreign language policies in schools across America and for students to gain knowledge about counties outside of America in the magazine, Foreign Policy. The author’s intentions are not to attack Americas educational system but to persuade the readers about the problems of the educational system used in America today. He wants the readers to realize that there is a change that needs to take place in the classrooms across America. He does this effectively by using the rhetorical choices antidotes, formal diction, and tone. His audience is geared towards American readers interested on political and cultural issues. I don’t think it’s geared towards students because,

He, obviously, is the narrator, and the person whom we see the story through. He gives us his opinions on the matters at hand, and we see the book through his viewpoint. The traits described above allow him to be such a great narrator, for he can get people to confide in him, and relay this information to the reader.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition, inspired, and success achieved- Helen Keller. By using the dialogue, an author can show you how their characters develop, whether they go from being horrible and mean to a respectable person, or vise versa. You get to know the conversations and listen to each of them talk, creating a voice for each one as you continue the story. The authors in “Lemon Tree Billiards House” and The House of the Scorpion use dialogue to develop their characters and the mood of their stories in the same way.

The narrator is reliable and the point of view of the story is in third person omniscient. The narrator tells us what all the characters like Millicent are saying, doing, or thinking, causing readers to be able to grasp a deeper understanding of everything happening around them.

The term “hero” has many different interpretations for different individuals. In his speech “Heroes”, Tim O’Brien tells his audience how he views a hero and redefines the often dramatized term. He defines a hero as one who knows what a person needs and is willing to give that to them without question. O’Brien accomplishes sharing his argument of what a hero is through the use of appealing to Kairos, diction and syntax.

Character are often times really the only thing that needs to be interesting for the story to be worth while. Veritably, reading about experiences through a character is far more engaging than directly being told advice or analysis. That is because narratives are almost always based in inherently human ideas/feelings and that is what most take and/or want to take away when they read one. A great example is “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst, where the main focus is the guilt the narrator feels after his actions towards his brother. It’s about a boy who has a brother with health problems, who he’s trying to fix into someone he won’t be ashamed of or have to constantly look after. Throughout the story one can see how the narrator

Dialogue is very critical in writing since it can make the piece exciting, or it can fully extinguish the tone of your story

Writing stories helped O'Brien during the war. They helped him get through the painful and unknown experience that he was not used to before the war. O'Brien says during the war, he picked up multiple bodies and “lifted and dumped [them] into a truck”, but with the stories he made “ the dead sometimes smile

Character wise, Lily spoke the most to me due to her dramatic development throughout the story. At the beginning she was a scared and vulnerable kid with little to none knowledge about the world; at the end Lily becomes a whole other person, she’s independent, proud, and strong. (“‘DAD I'M NOT A KID ANYMORE’”) A Belief i felt influenced me is how Rosaleen sticks to her moral rights has a human being no matter what; she won't take racism from anyone. (“‘YOU PIECE OF SCUM’ Rosaleen yelled at the racist

Narratives have massive importance in the driving of big ideas about how we view our world. They use many different techniques, to either subtly or plainly plant ideas into our minds. The author can point out big problems in our world, and by making it relevant to the consumer, lead them to think more about what is going on around them. They can turn something that doesn’t make sense to someone and by changing something very simple, make it more relevant.

I went to my grandmother’s house for lunch one afternoon. Her name is Bonnie. As we were eating I asked her about a family story. She had one that came straight to mind and really stuck out. It was about her long lost cousin, Jimmy. Jimmy’s mother, Willy, was born into a big family. Willy had eight siblings, but in this story I’ll only talk about two, Gladys and Maylene.

Tim O’Brien uses storytelling to show the experiences the young soldiers had faced during the war. The Vietnam War was a medium that allowed for the creation of several different stories pertained to each soldier. Tim O’Brien thus justifies his use of storytelling

I was checking the Miami Heat schedule for next week and they will be playing at home against the Chicago Bulls. That means the return of Dwyane Wade to Miami. I will have to go live to the AA Arena that day.

influential in the understanding of the story; however, in many novels it 's strange to have a narration outside of the living.

Lapietra, Jack Lapietra, who was my fellow officer, what had happened [inaudible] he went later on and then wrote a document about what he saw, but I really don't think at the time we really, any of us, really could visualize or realize what was happening to us or what we saw and it wasn't until we drove away and talked about it that night when we were all together and then I called the unit together and told them what we saw there and I don't think they believed me either until they went and saw for themselves because although I'm sitting here with you today, I just can't really tell you what we saw and make it dramatic enough or real enough to make you realize what happened. I told my kids and my grandkids and they don't think it's real,