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Kill A Mocking Narrative Voice
1,409 words'To Kill A Mocking Bird' by Harper Lee and 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bront are two very different books written in different periods of history. There are, however, similarities in the themes and background. For example, both books were written during times of great social upheaval and strife. In 'To Kill A Mocking Bird', the world was still very racist and it was not until the book was actually written some twenty years later the men like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X started to bring about r...
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Jim Burden Reader Learns
1,899 wordsThis My Antonia; My Antonia This remarkable piece of literature by Willa Cather is layered with its sense of place, connections between people and between people and places as well as visual, and surprisingly simple, descriptions of prairie life and events. The characters and the story are far more complex that at first appear. Even the simplistic tone of the narrative voice is deceptive in terms of the depth of feeling it ultimately reveals. Cather is the sort of author people read because they...
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First Person Narrative Farewell To Arms
2,358 wordsDiscuss how Ernest Hemmingway and Louis De Bernieres present the effects of war on the individual in A Farewell to Arms and Captain Corelli s Mandolin. Although some critics disapprove of De Bernieres portrayal of life in Greece during world war two (1), in particular his depiction of the Germans, there is no doubt that he succeeds in bringing to life the hideous and brutal world that he sets out to create, They fell to their knees, their hands flailing. their mouths filling with the dry and dus...
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Ability To Control Narrative Voice
1,935 wordsIn Middlemarch, Middlemarch Rosamond Revisited In Middlemarch, George Eliot presents a complex web of characters and bonds that cannot be classified into distinct categories. Dorothea and Casaubon, Lydgate and Bulstrode, and Fred and the Garth's represent a wide spectrum of human relations. Rosamond Vice and Tertius Lydgate encompass one such relationship. The relationship seems transparent on the surface, but closer inspection reveals a more complex core. Eliot creates a new depth to Rosamond u...
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr Third Person Omniscient
2,622 wordsThe connection between genius and madness is a well-known one in modern culture, almost to the point that it is considered a clich. Such a label does not affect its accuracy in the case of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. His literature is world-famous, and Vonnegut has been awarded numerous awards. However, Vonnegut s narrative style and the characters of his novels reflect the symptoms of serious mental illness, especially schizophrenia. While Vonnegut s works can be read partly as social criticisms, many p...
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Pied Piper Narrative Voice
1,137 wordsThe Sweet Hereafter Novel compared to the Movie The Sweet Hereafter is a gripping tale of a small U. S town and the people who dwell in it. A saga of four vivid, sensitive souls linked in a school bus tragedy: the bus driver, the widowed Vietnam Veteran, the lawyer who tries to shape the heartaches of the towns people into a winning case, and the beauty queen, Nichole, who was left crippled by the crash. The novel was written by critically acclaimed author Russell Banks, from which spawned the O...
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