The Narrator In 'Bruiser' By Neal Shusterman

He looked at me as if he wished I wasn’t there.” Why is that? What is making poor Gerald so embarrassed? After reading a sentence full of suspense like; “I should tell you here what I found out later at the funeral” we readers start to ask inquisitive questions such as- whose funeral? And what is it that the narrator knows that we don’t? What’s written in the card of the flowers?

Walton, the narrator of the first ten chapters narrates in a very unique way: writing letters. Walton talks about the “expression of wildness, and even madness,” and bases his side of the story off of it.

I think that Alan was jealous of his brother. Interestingly, the color dark green symbolises jealousy. Because Alan was jealous, he made decisions that wern’t exactly wise. He copied a essay from Blaze, who had copied from another author(Isaac

A true indication of a person’s character is the actions she/ he takes when dealing with life’s conflicts. In My Brother Sam is Dead, the authors, James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier, create Tim Meeker. Tim, a twelve year old, is growing up and facing many conflicts during the era of the American Revolution. While Tim is dealing with these internal and external conflicts, the reader can see Tim’s personality traits: confused and creative, by what he says and does, and by what others say in response to him.

    Hillenbrand does a great job in these short first sentences in using literary devices that we sometimes forget. But, she makes them show great power and change in the main character Louie and his drive to endure all his hardships. It pulls the whole novel together and solidifies its overall theme of the human

To understand this theme one must first understand the characters in this book. A prime example of an unhappy character

In addition, Hinton’s allocation of Ponyboy as the narrator aids the novel in being well-read through several eras. Readers observe his bildungsroman, much like teenagers from any generation will have to do in their own lives. Near the end of the novel he expresses his feelings about the Socs, saying, “Socs were just guys after all. Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too” (Hinton 118). Because it does not matter whether the adolescent reader comes from the same time period of the novel or from today’s society, this fictional journey is especially significant. Without the point of view of Ponyboy, The Outsiders would be a novel that may not shape an adolescent’s reading experience as significantly as it does; furthermore, another relevant literary device in use is symbolism.

Because of the author, Ernest J Gaines, uses fifteen different people to tell the narrative, you can see the conflict and repercussions of this breaking point

Raymond Carver chose to make the narrator a dynamic character to successfully illustrate how many people, at some point in their life, will realize a certain, unsettling conflict they have within themselves and learn from it. The narrator being a dynamic character, symbolizes those members in today’s society. In the story, the narrator realizes his internal conflict when despite the image of a cathedral being on the TV right in front of him, he cannot verbally explain what it is. This creates an unsettling feeling within the narrator. This then helps him to later realize his own shallow nature and, in a sense, how he himself is “blind”. Many people experience this unsettledness within themselves at some point throughout their life. Once they see these issues within themselves, and overcome their conflict, they grow as a person, just as the narrator demonstrates throughout the story.

• What are the characters’ emotions, attitudes, and behaviors? What do these indicate to the reader about the character?

Hemmingway’s story is written in an objective or dramatic point of view. The story is told primarily through dialogue. The narrator has emotionally distanced himself from the characters, and the true feelings and opinions of the characters are revealed in little clues as the story progresses. The narrator acts solely as a reporter of the chain of events

The ending of The Storyteller is contrasts the rest of the story in quite a few ways. It has quite a deflated tone as it ends with tension between the aunt and the bachelor. The bachelor makes a prideful comment on his ability to entertain the kids better than the aunt. He also makes observations about the aunt's character and amuses himself in the knowledge that he’s changed the children and their new expectations for stories they may be told in the future.

The writer composes the story from the perspective of an analyst. She alludes to occasions later on, facts, and information that no character could have known in the setting of the story. Incorporated into the content are genuine quotes said or composed by the general population she expounds on, including the primary character. She utilizes an extremely objective voice, giving successive analysis of distinctive individuals' outlook and continually alluding to insights to demonstrate her point. Since the book does not focus on the point of view of any single character, it peruses more like a news article than a story, which frequently exhausting its groups of readers. Accordingly, Hillenbrand's written work style once in a while obstructs the correspondence of her thoughts because she regularly includes actualities, quotes and investigation in the book; it usually bores audience on the grounds that it peruses more like a news article instead of a

From young, limitless ambitions to experienced realisation of what is realistically possible to achieve. This is shown in the story through using minor sentences, briefly mentioning the narrator’s rites of passage, to show their insignificance compared to upcoming events later in his life, and displaying the impulsive, impatient thinking of a young teenager in the start of the story. By the end of the story, the narrator has a wise, experienced voice, understanding of the effects of impatience on achieving his goals, and displaying to the reader how thoughts change as individuals

I believe that this novel was meant to be read by people who are old enough to understand different struggles people sometimes need to endure to achieve goal. If someone were not to understand this concept then the novel would be “empty,” for them.