Cues: Credibility Of The Narratorlines

“ You can tell a true story if you just keep on telling it” Tim O’Brien

This is a very important part of the book because it shows the reader that the

"Stories that show all too clearly how airily Faulkner can reproduce the manipulation of the reader's emotions is the real aim of the commercial short story. (Kazin 162) . "The total story says what has been said in so much successful literature." (Lewis 157) . "Man's plight is tragic, but that there is heroism in an attempt to rise above it."(Lewis 157) .

These short descriptions or stories were to build his persuasion on the reader. The anecdotes he used led

The author starts out by saying, “This is true” and as a writer he utilizes this statement to show his

Reading a real life story helps readers picture the event more vividly and they can hold the story in a higher regard. Schlosser makes the opinions personable by using this

To start off, this technique is one of the mainstream characteristics of this book. Right from the first page, the reader is subtly warned of the fact that the narrator is an unreliable person and can’t be trusted. So, the

The art of quoting and summarizing an argument is one of the main skills to acquire when it comes to writing a successful piece of work. In the book, They Say I Say the art of inserting quotations is mentioned to be one of the highest mistakes made by writers. Many insert a quote that has no frame of introduction or background information which is considered a “hit and run quote.” Readers need to be able to comprehend not only the writings, but the background information and quotes from another author writing in order to have the whole work cohesive. Dire necessity for the writer is to go back to the initial text and truly understand the background from which they are quoting to make sure their audience understands the quote and why

Although the two letters written by Herbert and Seaver might seem polar opposites, they have more in common than it may seem. While Herbert creates narratives and Seaver combats them, they both incorporate factual evidence to bolster their narratives. Furthermore, the tone of each letter is important in developing the letter’s overall argument.

In his collection of short shorties, O’Brien writes in a style that is very vivid and often times causes the audience to find themselves accepting the events and details of these stories as the truth. O’Brien contrasts the truth to fiction by reminding the audience that within these short stories, the details are not the truth and are there to demonstrate the human emotions that can not be communicated as absolute facts.

This gives the audience something to continually ponder on through the rest of the essay and become one step closer to being fully emerged in the world of Stephen King’s thoughts.

communicate his state of mind. In essence he is attempting to bring himself and the reader closer, to establish a

The intradiegetic narrator is defined as a “narrator who exists within the storyworld of a particular text and transmits a story that is framed by the extradiegetic narrative level” and is mainly used to present the view from a character from an outside narrative voice, which gives a sense of trustworthiness as it is not so subjective as an first person narrator. The characteristics of this narrator include distance from the story told and in most of the novel, the narrative voice is intradiegetic through the eyes of the character of Anna who endures a harsh life as twenty year old worker who takes care of her family by herself. In her perspective the reader feels empathy from the start of the novel when her background is known , feeling which

“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”

It also emphasises the feeling of trust for the narrator since he’s sharing so many details.