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    The film “Run Lola Run” directed by Tom Tykwer, is an intense, fast paced motion picture which captures the usage of a variety of visual techniques. Tykwer utilizes several elements within the film in order to convey numerous themes but the most significant theme implemented throughout “Run Lola Run” is that life is based on chance. The directors decision to implement a video game like structure within the film allows the audience to interpret each individual scene differently. For example, within

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    question the ethics of every character. Nick contrasts Gatsby in that he is not transcending his dreams rather, “he lives in the image of an increasing reductive melancholy” (Aithal 232). Therefore, his accurate portrayal and replication of his narration style are vital to preserving the personality of the story. In the novel, the limitations of Nick’s view have narrative consequences. Nick sometimes only sees part of a meaning that a scene might convey and he “strains judgments out of inconclusive

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    A & P By John Updike

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    remained a forerunner of various confrontations over public decency of the resultant decade ahead. To analyze ‘A & P’ by John Updike, one has to fully understand the purpose of story which has been portrayed in first person Narration. Many people are of the view that for a first narration, voice of the story should be reliable as a narrator. Hence the main character of the story who remains the first narrator is Sammy. Author has created a voice for Sammy that keep altering from sharp wit to common slang

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    What makes a narration so unique? How different can we perceive a story depending on who and how tells it? In the act of storytelling, many features are essential, such as the narrative time or mode, but especially the role of the narrator is crucial. Depending on the narrator’s perspective, many different impressions can be assumed. In Charles Dickens’ “Hard Times”, Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” and Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” the narratological voice is third person, which means that

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    are saying is heard. For example, Celie is a narrator and a character and her voice is entirely in the first person. It can be argued that Alice Walker has mixed some of her own words (the authorial voice) with that of Celie, creating a blended narration where it is not really sure where the author ends and the character begins, lending to the creation of a voice which is vivid and striking, and most of all, wrenchingly honest. The usage of the first person form throughout the novel provides the

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    Even from some of his earliest work, he begins to mold a very individualistic style. His project film Its not Just you Murray shows the beginnings of his stylistic signatures: discontinuity editing, jump cuts, and narration. With regards to narration, Scorsese loves to use graphic matches and inserted photographs to establish the plot. In Its not just you Murray, Scorsese uses a graphic montage to convey to the viewer the awkwardness of the love triangle between Joe, Murray, and

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    upon logical rhetoric, first person plural narration, and imperative, interrogative, and conditional statements signifies the veritable influence of these devices to convince women to have sex in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. While Herrick's famous "Corinna's Going A-Maying" depends primarily on imperative statements, it also features logical rhetoric and first person plural narration. Likewise, the overpowering ingredient in

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    We could see that the prologue narration that opens the film is narrated by a third person, a woman’s voice that belonged to the character Mrs. Potts. By having a third person narration in the opening scene, it helps us understand more about the beast’s background. We know that the cause is the beast’s act of unkindness, which register the effect. The effect

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    First person narration is always tricky in literature. It is quite easy to get caught up in only getting one side of the story, and not consider the narrators bias in the interpretation of events. This is true of the Holden Caulfield’s narration in J.D. Salinger’s 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. Holden is a judgemental, immature teenager, who often gets caught up looking at things from the point of his depression. Many elements of Holden’s life have led him to feel very disenfranchised by society

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    them. Shark, Lion, and Wolf become friends over the fact that they are all carnivores and work together to embrace themselves as carnivores. The narrator reads the book expressively and fluently. Stated by Cahill, “Appealing digital texts have narration that is both expressive and fluent” (34). As the narrator reads, each word is highlighted to indicate to the reader what word the narrator is on. The reader can adjust both the volume and reading speed of the narrator. This e-book is quality,

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