The Alexander Send Rain Genre Analysis

The Alexander Archipelago Rain Forest stories is a book of twelve tranche de vie meta-genre Chapters. I’ll confess that in writing these stories to being influenced by such writers as Nase Yamato, Oscar Wilde, Touko Kamai, Stefan Zweig and other in their use of the tranche de vie concept to cut across the grain of time. Because some readers may find my use of the slice of life narrative treatment unfamiliar, it’s my hope that their exposure to this genre will be enjoyable. So .
. . what then constitutes the tranche de vie genre?
Its usage in this book is the depiction of everyday, mundane, slice of life existence in the Tongass rainforest. The definition of the genre is complicated because so many people have so many different views on what
That seems simple enough . . . so then, can every title in the library be considered a slice of life story? No, that’s giving tranche de vie too broad a definition. Slice of life stories tend to be realistically related to life. A story written in this style has to be able to relate to real life. However, slice of life stories can contain supernatural elements as long as they feel real or surreal.
Tranche de vie as a genre:
Tranche de vie is a genre that never stands alone. It is a meta-genre that has different genres that support it. As in life tranche de vie is also inconsistent and development (if any) grows slowly compared to mainstream stories. This is because much of what we do in life is extraneous, such as
Alexander Archipelago xiii socializing with people, satisfying basic needs . . . Character development is slow, since in real life getting to know a new person takes time. As the very term suggests, “slice” implies detachment, when something is sliced it is sliced “from” something else. In this book each story is a slice “from” the narrator’s life in the rain forest. Each chapter is a detached episode that doesn’t even try to fit, like a jigsaw puzzle piece, into the before story or into the after story. The