Close reading NB: a close reading is not a description from beginning to end: it is a view on a narrative that sees it as a whole‚ and has a critical opinion on it. Basics The process of close reading is twofold: first‚ read the text; second‚ interpret your reading. Interpretation is a kind of inductive reasoning: you should move from the observation of particular facts and details to a reading based on those details. A close reading does not mean a close description - the reading element
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addressing God in such a manner. 2. Who is the narrator? What pronoun is being used? What is the effect? The symbolic everyman or woman. First person singular is used. The effect is to ask genuine questions and make personalized statements‚ yet with ironic humour given the ultimate vulnerability of the voice. 3. What age is the narrator? Gender? Ethnicity? Does it matter? The narrator is middle aged I have about half left’‚ non specific gender and ethnicity so that applicability to every reader
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whom happen to be poor defenseless prostitutes‚ are endangered and it up to the attractive‚ young‚ ambitious detective to solve the case. Hayes has the audience rooting for prostitutes’ well-being and to incarcerate the wealthy murder. Which is very ironic since society has us always downgrading prostitutes
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is given to us by the third-person narrator who is omniscient and descriptive. The boys are described in detail without us yet knowing who they are. They then start a conversation with each other and the next section is made up almost entirely of dialogue in which the narrator steps back and only adds occasional remarks to let us know who is speaking‚ for example: respondió el preguntado; dijo el mayor; respondió el mediano; preguntó el grande. The narrator does not release the boys names until they
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William Golding‚ the author of Lord of the Flies‚ used irony to tell his story of a group of young British boys stranded on a deserted island. The readers can clearly spot the irony in the dialogue and Ralph‚ one of the main character‚ is also aware of the irony in his situation. The irony in the novel forces the readers to step aside and think about the hidden meanings the author is trying to express. <br> <br>The first example of irony occurred in chapter two. Jack says to the group of young‚ impressionable
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Thoughts on a section of Ethan Frome… (p.33 -34) Edith Wharton quite deliberately brings together human emotion and the environment in her novella Ethan Frome. The characters are circumscribed by the environment in which they exist and the impossibility of escape from the environmental forces of nature‚ heredity and place shape the characters of the text. A moment of hope arises as Mattie and Ethan walk home together from the dance and a more romantic sense of possibility emerges. The reader
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HSC STUDY BUDDY 1 STANDARD ENGLISH MODULE A: EXPERIENCE THROUGH LANGUAGE DISTINCTIVELY VISUAL ESSAY Discuss how the distinctively visual conveys distinctive experiences in The Shoe-Horn Sonata and two other texts of your own choosing. John Misto’s play The Shoe-‐Horn Sonata‚ the short story Gogo Mama
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satire‚ commenting on human idiocy‚ and Jane Austen uses an omniscient third person point of view to convey what is happening during the novel‚ through indirect and direct reporting of the awareness of the characters‚ authorial intrusion and comment‚ dialogue and letters. In their initial encounters‚ Elizabeth and Darcy both display substantial levels of pride and prejudice that prevents them from forming a lasting relationship. When they meet each other at the first ball‚ Darcy says “She [Elizabeth]
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arrangements to say in town. It wouldn’t do for a black man and his family to be caught on a lonely road on a night when Joe Louis had proved that we were the strongest people in the world” (28). This final paragraph of “Champion of the World” is ironic‚ because the black people should be openly proud that Joe Louis had won‚ yet‚ they cower away in fright of the white people who
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Essay In the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard there are many different themes that can be gleaned from the playoff of Hamlet. One of the main themes is the concept of fate. Fate‚ as defined by Random House Dictionary‚ is: something that unavoidably befalls a person (Fate). Rosencrantz and Guildenstern constantly deal with fate. It seems that they do not quite understand what this is. When discussing who dies with the Players Guildenstern
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