Timothy Findley Timothy Findley is a native of Toronto‚ Ontario. He was born in 1930 and grew up in the Rosedale district of Toronto. Growing up‚ Timothy Findley knew that he wanted to be an artist of some form. He studied dance and later acting‚ which had more success. While acting‚ he met one of his current life long friends; actress Ruth Gordon. Gordon convinced Findley that writing was his real talent and that he should pursue it further with more concentration. So findley gave up acting
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Metafiction is a literary device that makes a reader question what is reality and what is fiction. Tim O’Brien uses metafiction‚ in his chapter “How to Tell a True War Story”‚ to tell the reader how one can pick out a true war story as he is telling a war story. He uses this technique to emphasize how real the stories were to keep himself sane and get his bottled-up emotions off his chest. In the chapter “Notes”‚ O’Brien tells the reader a story about a man named Norman Bowker. Bowker committed
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Metafiction and Happy Endings (Margaret Atwood) METAFICTION A. Definition: The narrator of a metafictional work will call attention to the writing process itself. The reader is never to forget that what she is reading is constructed--not natural‚ not " real." She is never to get "lost" in the story. B. Possible Contents: intruding to comment on writing involving his or herself with fictional characters directly addressing the reader openly questioning how narrative assumptions
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The Wars Justification. Defined as the act of justifying something. To serve as an acceptable reason or excuse for our actions‚ based on actual or believed information. Throughout the history of not only the modern world‚ but certainly back to the "barest essentials of reason" our species have made decisions that have effectively shaped our world into what it is today. Or have not. The judgments made in the past may also have been relatively insignificant to a larger picture‚ but would still
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The Vietnam War was a period of history in which some great pieces of fiction were created. The Things They Carried‚ by Tim O’Brien is a great example of one of these pieces of fiction. A big part of this novel was O’Brien’s theme of metafiction. Metafiction is a type of fiction that self-consciously addresses the devices of fiction. This in another sense means that metafiction is the act of writing about writing. This literary device is used in The Things They Carried‚ as O’Brien’s method to systematically
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stories manage obstacles in their lives. Throughout our lives we face many challenges – some more difficult than others. What matters is if we manage to overcome these ‘tests’. Neil Smith writes about Max from “Green Fluorescent Protein” and Thomas Findley writes about Dr.Menlo in “Dreams”. Both characters face internal and external issues and we see how they try to overcome them. Both protagonists should be happy when we look at their comfortable lives. Max comes from a good neighbourhood and Dr.
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THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND Dramatic criticism of the play by Tom Stoppard | | | | |In The Real Inspector Hound Stoppard makes fun of the critical jargon used by reviewers; when they make quasi-official | |pronouncements‚ they are pompous and silly. Of course the satire is especially effective when it is partly self-satire‚ coming | |from a former theater critic
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novel‚ The Piano Man’s Daughter deals this idea of learning from past mistakes‚ and the author Timothy Findley does expands this idea further to the possibility of inheriting the same mistake to the next generation. The Piano
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carry during war. The way O’Brien incorporates these lists into his writing indisputably makes the events and stories conceivable for the reader because each item defines the nature of the men in alpha platoon. O’Brien’s depiction of the men in alpha platoon does more than define each man’s personality but it enables a reader with no knowledge of war to experience the reality of it. O’Brien’s obscures the definitively drawn line between socioeconomic classes by way of war. The Vietnam War was the first
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***** *** ENG *** Mrs. ***** June 12‚ 2013 The Importance of a Father in a Family In literature‚ authors emphasize the importance of family members. In The Piano Man’s Daughter written by Timothy Findley‚ the role of a father in a family is important. For example‚ Charlie Kilsworth does not figure out who his father is until long after his mother‚ Lily Kilsworth‚ dies. During his childhood‚ Lily does not tell Charlie who his father is. As a result of such action‚ Charlie refuses to have children
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