Narrator

African people are like, but rather he is sharing with us what has been brought to his attention. As such, we should look at Heart of Darkness from an unbiased perspective and take it as a literary work of art that is an expression of the view of the narrators of the story who do not necessarily hold

576). The character of the boy is described as early pubescent which permits the reader to deduce on what he fully knows regarding life, love, and lust. An unreliable narrator, however, is a narrator that we perceive to be misleading, self-deceptive, deluded or deranged. Porter articulately depicts Granny Weatherall to be most of these in “The Jilting...” particularly when the reader encounters an interaction between Granny, also

the author’s beliefs. Firstly, Characters The main participants in the story are: the author and John Baxter Copmanhurst (the skeleton). The author in the story is the narrator presented with the subject pronoun “I”; he is the one who describes and comments a singular dream he had. At the beginning of the story, the narrator is surprised, horrified and pitying when he is brought face to face with a skeleton but at the end he is interested and filled with sympathy for the dead and gives his

Hamlet is nearer to the narrator in a play of Chikamatsu than to a chorus. Yet, he is different from both. Unlike them, he is an intruder. He speaks to the players from the outside of the play and speaks to the audience from the inside of the play. In this sense, he is alien to both. He is a narrator, a wielder of Lexis. Unlike the chorus, he is a single person with a voice of his own. Furthermore, unlike the narrator in the Japanese puppet theatre, he is visible. Unlike both, Hamlet seems to impose

duction Narratives are works that are an expression of connected events. Narratives include novels, dramas, fables, folk tales, short stories and poetry. Narratives are also found in cinema, music and theatre. Narrative techniques give meaning for the reader and help the reader to use imagination for visualizing situations. Narrative literary techniques are also known as literary devices. Literary elements include setting, plot, theme, style or structure, characters and perspective or voice of the

2. Tess, a spiritual (ized) woman Neither the narrator nor Angel criticizes her murder of Alec. Although she is no more a virgin than being guilty, those men draw close to her. In this time, masculine point of view does not allow the female character Tess to treat herself like a flesh-and-blood woman. As a result of that, the author fails to describe realistically the heroine. The narrator vindicates Tess, treating the murder case as one by the woman done to the man full of lust. Her mentality

The story Barn Burning let’s the reader view as one of Faulkner’s most meaningful short stories that has ever been written. The stories main theme is the loyalty in which Sarty has to find within himself, wethers it is to blood or justice. Abner Snopes, Sarty’s father keeps on reminding him that family relations are very important and that he was getting to be a man. He must learn to stick to family blood or he will not have any blood to sticking to Sarty. In William Faulkner’s story Barn Burning

Many families struggle and don’t get along because of differences in behavior and in culture. In the story, “Everyday Use” written by Alice Walker the narrator throughout the story is the mother of both Maggie, and Dee, however the story would be somewhat different if it was written in the perspective of Maggie, Dee, or even an omniscient narrator. First, If the story were written in Maggie’s point of view, it would not change quite as much. However, some things would become more clear to the

The short story “ Saboteur” by Ha Jin, is narrated in a limited third person point of view. The third person narration choice allows the reader to closely follow the character, Mr. Chiu who has been arrested for a crime he did not commit. As the short story goes on the narration allows the read to learn more of what Mr. Chiu is experiencing throughout his stay in jail and also important lessons he learns along the way. As the reader is first introduced to the main character Mr. Chiu he

In “The Chaser” and in “Eleven”, the reader can observe two different characters that face a problem which they want to resolve. Both characters share some qualities: they are young and not yet mature. These qualities shape their reactions and the way they approach the situation depicted in each story. Both stories share a struggle in the main characters' attempt to achieve their desires under the effect of external factors. However, these two stories appear to be different in several aspects: considering