Narratology

For Writing Project Three, I transformed Breaking Bad, a television series, into a news article. Specifically, I focused on the last episode of the series, Felina. Since I am a fan of dramas and I also enjoy to read the news frequently, I decided to combine my two interests for this assignment. Originally, I planned on transforming the drama, Mad Men, but that series is not as dynamic or familiar to most audiences as the critically acclaimed Breaking Bad. The Colonial News Coverage of Paul Revere’s

A Scrivener is a clerk, a copyist, a regular conforming 9 to 5 day job, get paid, get old, a life well planned, however; what if ones views and determination about life start colliding with others, then what becomes life for both the conformist and nonconformist as seen in Herman Melville's, “Bartleby, the Scrivener, A Story of Wall-Street.” Melville uses of direct characterization with his own description of Bartleby and indirect characterization through scenery, names and dialogue create a dense

The syuzhet in the first few scenes of Every Secret Thing omits and distorts the events surrounding Olivia’s kidnapping and murder in order to frame Ronnie as a criminal and Alice as an innocent girl. By doing this, the syuzhet creates several suppressed gaps which get filled by the enacted recounting later on. Numerous occurrences at the start of the film establish Alice and Ronnie’s conflicting personalities. At the pool party, Alice tries to fit in with the other girls, albeit unsuccessfully.

The writer sits, their fingers lay gently across the lettering of a keyboard. Images and words swirl through their mind, formulating the perfect literary storm. Yet their hands refuse to type. Even with the perfect story in mind, the writer must first choose the most effective mode of discourse to properly communicate their desired message. Every piece of literature, whether it be a poem or a novel, contains either one or various types of this communication. Rachel Lloyd, the author of Girls Like

The article written by Martin Jacobi, Who Killed Robbie and Cecilia? Reading and Misreading Ian McEwan’s Atonement, is very critical and analytical about how McEwan chose to allow for misreadings in the novel Atonement, and the potential dangerous effects of allowing that. Jacobi focuses on Briony, the narrator of the novel, as the one who is the source of “Who killed Robbie and Cecilia?” It is Briony’s misreadings of situations depicted in the novel that forces Robbie to be wrongfully imprisoned

Arrival, released in 2016 and directed by Charlie Villanueva, opens with a montage of a child’s life and early death. This montage appears to be a flashback that our protagonist experiences before the events of the film. However, this introductory scene actually encourages the formation of a false hypothesis, since the montage features events from the future, not the past. The primacy effect strongly encourages the acceptance of this hypothesis, at least until the narration presents an overwhelming

Foucault argues that the panoptic gaze and the diary or memoirs are in a way opposing principles. Diaries are narratively private, self reflectively written, and read only by the diarist whereas the gaze is an unspoken communication between the observer and the observed. However, both the gaze and the diary are, in a sense utilised by both Ishiguruo in his text The Remains of the Day, and Levy’s, The Long Song. For the reader to realise a complete overview of the protagonist’s private thoughts both

Victor Tran #25 5/20/16 Expos Writing 7° Hero or Zero (Rhetorical Analysis Essay) A story may depend on the structure of the book and how well it flows from page to page, but yet it strictly depends on the word choice and how effective the author is able to apply rhetorical devices. Stories such as A Separate Piece, A&P, and The Man I Killed, is able to effectively portray the character’s emotion, thoughts, and the intent of their actions. The authors use heroic, rhetorical strategies to reveal

Revenge/Murder vs Morality The title of the short story is called, “Killings.” This is a great title, as it automatically implants emotions in the reader and builds intrique as to who?, what?, why? and how? The story begins in an interesting plot sequence known as “In Medias Res,” in which the story does not start in the beginning but uses flashbacks and narrative(in a non-linear fashion) to establish the exposition. This inherently allows the reader to begin the story with a sort of pre-established

The Narrator In the story “That October” the narrator has many character traits. One of these character traits was honesty. The narrator in the story, at a young age, was affected by a virus called Polio. The virus caused the narrator to have a weak leg, which led to him to have to wear leg braces. A reason why the narrator was honest was because in the story the narrator told a Russian soldier about his whole back story as to why he hit the a baseball into the Russian research center. When the