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The novelist employs some methods of representation, but he/she does so in the form of a narrative.The novelistdescribes life or experience of life which is content of the novel. Therefore, the content of life which is presented in the novel is important. Nadine Gordimer is one of the foremost fiction writers in South Africa and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991. Nadine Gordimer was recognized as a potentially major artist, a talented, serious and careful writer who treated important

Balzac and the Little Seamstress, written by Dai Sije, is a novel that demonstrates the human characteristic of finding light in the dark; finding hope in adversity. The book centers around 3 characters, all who grow as people with the influence of western literature. On pages 143-144, the Narrator, the nameless main character, controls a pedal that controls a needle, that he and his best friend Luo are using to fix their headmaster’s tooth, in return for Narrators freedom. Narrator grows into his

In the eyes of a male, signs of sympathy, care, and forgiveness often exhibit characteristics of insubstantial conduct. In the poem “Death of the Hired Man,” Robert Frost’s character of Warren is no exception to this undocumented social law. Throughout the poem Warren exhibits an aggravated sense of emotion toward the character of Silas and after the devastating discovery of his death Warrens true colors and emotion peers through due to the undeniable love he has for his wife Mary. Warren is cold

Diction is defined as enunciation in speaking and writing. It can change the way in which you interpret a story and helps set the vision that an author wants the reader to see when reading his or her story. Homer used diction is the Odyssey to establish the time frame and the setting that the story is set in. The Odyssey is not set in a modern day time period, so Homer used diction to make the reader feel like they are reading the memoir of a man from Greece in 650 bc. This makes the story more

In order to piece a story together, most writer resort to using rhetorical techniques to flesh their ideas. Techniques such as diction, theme, and tone come a long way in making a story whole. Diction is the deliberate choice of a style of language for a desired effect or tone. The words chosen achieve a particular effect, whether it be formal, informal, or colloquial. For example, Nathaniel Hawthorn used formal diction in writing The Scarlet Letter whereas Mark Twain’s diction in multiple of his

In this excerpt from The Country of the Pointed Firs, Jewett characterizes her narrator to be and observant, romantic, and solitary individual through the use of description, imagery and diction. Although the narrator does not speak at length about herself, her language and description reveal information about her characteristics. One may infer from the content of the excerpt, and the blatant omission of personal information that the narrator enjoys watching her surroundings. She describes at length

Narrative as defined by the Oxford dictionary is any report of connected events, actual or imaginary, presented in a sequence (Oxford dictionary). Over time a set of narrative conventions were adopted by Hollywood in the 1950s and have become common practice in contempary Hollywood. This essay will focus on Quentin tarantino’s 1994 film Pulp Fiction, conducting an analysis on its use of narrative and whether or not Pulp Fiction subverts or conforms to Hollywood’s modes of narration. One of the most

1. The protagonist of this chapter is Rat Kiley. Rat tells a story about his assignment in the mountains of Chu Lai. One example of a figurative language O’Brien uses is imagery by Rat describing the compound.. “The compound was situated at the top of a flat - crested hill along the northern outskirts of Tra Bong.” (87). For this piece of imagery, O’Brien is telling the audience what the layout of the compound looks like and how it’s designed. Another example of a figurative language I found in

In the story “So I Ain’t No Good Girl” by Sharon Flake, our narrator tells a story in first person about a tumultuous morning for her as she waits to board a bus for school. What started as a seemingly normal trip to school turns dramatic when the narrator’s delusions overwhelm her critical thinking, which is worsened further by her abusive and unfaithful boyfriend, Raheem. Marked by her poor decisions, abuse, and delusions, our unnamed narrator only aggravates me but still gets across an important

Momaday and Brown essay Authors Momaday and Brown both manipulate imagery, tone, and metaphors differently to express weather and landscape change after the immigrant europeans had arrived. Momaday and Brown both use imagery in different ways to express weather and landscape change after the immigrant europeans had arrived. In lines 4-6, Momaday writes, “Winter brings blizzards, hot tornadic winds arise in the spring, and in summer, the prairie is an anvil’s edge”. the flowing, artistic language