Narratology

The setting of “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck had a heavy hand in the development of the plot and characters in the story. The setting shows how some of the characters will react to certain situations. The setting shows us the character's way of life, how they eat, sleep, and go about everyday. The setting also shows us how the characters will help develop the plot. The plot and the setting go hand in hand. To have one, but not the other, would be impossible. The setting gives the plot a

Non-linear storytelling was first seen sometime between the late nineteenth century and the end of the 1920s. Non-linear storytelling is “the structure of a movie in the way time is presented. A nonlinear story can begin at the beginning or end.”(LoBrutto 2012). Non-linear storytelling is one of the many stylistic elements Tarantino uses in his own films, largely influenced by The Killing (1956). “Pulp Fiction’ reproduces the everyday experience of living in a fragmented society in which each of

When an author begins to write any piece of literature, one of the first aspects of that work that a writer must consider is the point of view. The point of view in a story contributes to the mood of the story, it the development of certain characters, and it can change the way that the readers respond to different plot elements. The importance of point of view in short stories shows its significance within Charlotte Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.” In the story, the narrator is the protagonist,

In the “deadline”, by Chris Crutcher the author includes a tremendous pleasant way of explaining the character’s feeling with figurative language. The main character’s is Ben, Doctor Wagner, Marla, Dawson, Coach Banks, Cody, and Dallas Suzuki. The doctor gives Ben the terrible news that he has a year to live because Ben has blood cancer. He talks to Marls, to come with a pain and he decides to fast forward his life. The author uses figurative language to enhance the main character’s feelings. Ben

A simple fact of literature is that a story simply cannot be told without the presence of a nar-rator. This textual voice literally narrates the story and therefore wields the power to influ-ence it in many ways. Sometimes, it is not what the narrator reveals that is important, but what is left out. Writers can use the different aspects of narration to make their point more efficiently and it is therefore an obvious focus point when it comes to interpreting a text. Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw

A story would go nowhere without the characters making something happen. Characters are used for everything in a story, they set the scene, make the plot happen, and everything inbetween. Characterization is a major deal for writers because without proper characterization, the plot will not be able to go the way they want it to. This is also a big factor for the play, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. He uses so many different characters to really push certain things to the audience, and to make

Perspective plays a crucial role in a story. When a story is presented from a character’s point of view it gives the audience only their version of the story. This can be misleading for the audience because they do not know if what they are reading is the truth. The poems “Those Winter Sundays”, “Forgiving My Father”, and the story, The Glass Menagerie, are told from one character’s perspective. Due to the poems and story being narrated from one character’s perspective, the story becomes one-sided

A narrative knot is a specific link of audio and visual or audio and plot that is frequently used in all aspects of media. Music is closely intertwined with many common cinematic practices therefore patterns have developed over the years. Narrative knots are formed when similar compositions or instruments accompany scenes with the same or similar storylines. The music causes the audience to expect a certain outcome. Narrative knots tend to be a bit specific while figures are the more general

The narrator mostly spoke from an outsider’s point of view. This means the narrator used mostly facts which left us, as readers, to infer the characters thoughts and feelings. For example, in section three of the story, the narrator stated, “The town had just let the contracts for paving the sidewalks, and in the summer after her father’s death they begun the work. The construction company came with niggers and mules and machinery, and a foreman named Homer Barren, a Yankee- a big, dark, ready man

The setting includes place and time. Louise Erdrich’s A Wedge of Shade and A Reptile gives details about different locations and times that collaborate with the characters and stories. The settings describe numerous vivid scenes throughout the story that makes the reader visualize what the protagonists are going through and helps to deliver the desired message. Settings can also be identified as symbols for important ideas. Ideas help transmit the desired message to the reader. The setting of the