critical analysis of chitra banerjee's The Palace of Illusions

Narrative stories or essays can expand through a wide variety. Although a narrative is telling a story, it could be a person narrative or something they have experienced. This allows others to become creative when telling their stories. Reading “The Sanctuary of School”and “Tell Me Something”, the authors used various ways of writing and publishing a narrative story.

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

narratives, tell a story, usually to some point, to illustrate some truth or insight. Following are some

There are many writing techniques/crafts that authors write about in their story. For example, stories could have metaphors, flashbacks/flash forwards, or tone. But, in the story The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe uses symbolism, revealing actions, and descriptive language to show why the narrator wants to kill the old man.

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).

What is narrative? Narrative is a story, narrative is a type of movie, narrative is a way of structuring fictional or fictionalized stories presented in narrative films, narrative is a broader concept that both includes and goes beyond any of these applications.

Narrative texts tell a story. This type of writing includes novels, plays, and narrative poems. Narrative texts are usually fictional but can sometimes focus on true events.

This method has four main components of the narrative or story: characters, setting, plot, and theme. Protagonists (the main characters), the antagonist (the character creating conflict with the protagonist), and other contributing characters are the people that make the story. Where the story takes place would be considered the setting, this is where the narrator can bring his or her audience to help paint a picture. The core of the story, in other words the plot, helps illustrate the action within the story. Similar to the plot, the theme is the main message that the narrator or storyteller is trying to convey to the audience listening. Now the two primary sets of functions that the narrative method holds are epistemological and persuasive. The former touches on how the story can help others understand society, the latter then can be explained as how stories persuade people to take on or leave behind ideas about society. The approach to narrative criticism analyzes how well the narrative fulfills its rhetorical functions (Hartzell, 2015), while evaluating the source or narrator for their credibility. The narrative perspective seems to be more subjective due to the fact that the narrators’ opinions are personal, and the narrative presented is attempting to persuade the audience to adapt to the same

Since the beginning of time, humans have entertained each other with stories about legends, heroes, and gods. How a person presents a story is called the art of storytelling. Some stories have stood the test of time because of the way the story affected the reader. A story like The Grimm Tales has still been around because of the unique and spine-chilling storytelling. The tales has a different story for every person so the stories seem like new every time. In the books, The Things They Carried, Running With Scissors, and On The Road: The Original Scroll shows how the art of storytelling affects the book overall appearance. Storytelling will be different for every story but will on occasion revolve around the same methods. The art of storytelling involves written after the events of story, for therapeutic help, and told in a first person narrative.

Narrative: (Kirszner, & Mandell, 2012 p. 351) a type of writing that tells a story or describes a sequence of events in an incident.

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.

Feminism in India is a set of movements which defining, establishing and defending equal political, economic and social rights and equal opportunities for Indian women. Feminist criticism was not inaugurated until late in the 1960s.Behind it, however lie two centuries of struggle for the recognition of women’s cultural roles and achievements and for women’s social and political rights marked by such books as Mary Wollstone Craft’s A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women (1792), John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection Of Women (1869), and the American Margaret Fuller’s Women in The Nineteenth Century

She makes an important point when trying to go beyond the female (otherness), by paying careful attention to differences among women themselves, and by putting emphasize on the multiple realties that women faces, and by that trying to uncover universalist interpretations (Parpart and Marchand 1995:6). She reveals the inadequacy of binary categories by showing us how power is defined in binary terms, between the people who have (men) and the people who do not (women). This is a consequence of seeing women as a homogenous group, and contributes to the reinforcement of the binary division between men and women (Mohanty 1991:64). By assuming that women are a already constituted group with the same experiences and interests, gender is looked upon as something that can be applied cross cultures (Mohanty 1991:54), and it also produces an assumption about the “average third world woman” as poor and uneducated, in contrast to the educated, modern Western women (Mohanty 1991:56). Implicit in the binary analytic lies the assumption that the third world woman only can be liberated through western rationality. Mohanty is making an important point when emphasising the need to challenge these objectifications (Udayagiri 1995:163).

Bharati Mukherjee is one of the accomplished diasporic writers. Her writing focuses mainly on women’s suppression, struggle to overcome the problems and attempt to attain identification. Bharati Mukherjee also depicts the cultural conflicts between the East and the West. When a person enters into a new culture from the old one, the conflict arises between the two cultures in the alien land. This paper explores how the female character, Jasmine is portrayed as protagonist in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine. Bharati Mukherjee portrays Indian woman as protagonist in all her novels and the character takes brave decision to emigrate which is the first major step of heroism. The character is portrayed with the capable of facing adventures and creates own happiness and identity, unyielding by conventionality. In Jasmine (1989),