This dynamic between the arguments of Smith and Chidester is similar to the dynamic between the notions of authorial intent and reader-response‚ respectively. Authorial intent emphasizes the author as the guarantor of meaning. Here‚ the meaning of a work is determined by what the author intended for it to be. On the other hand‚ reader-response is the belief that the interpretation and meaning of a work should be determined by the audience‚ instead of the author. While both arguments are compelling
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Why is the narrator an unreliable one? 1. He is not a reliable narrator because he is insane. Though he repeatedly states that he is sane‚ the reader suspects otherwise from his bizarre reasoning‚ behavior‚ and speech. ‘‘True—nervous—very‚ very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?’’ The reader realizes through Poe’s description of the narrator’s extreme nervousness that the protagonist has in fact descended into madness‚ as anxiety is a common symptom of
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James McCune Smith James McCune Smith was born on April 18‚ 1813 in New York to a mother who was a freed slave named Lavinia Smith and a father was Samuel Smith‚ a white merchant and his mother master. He went to African Free School in New York City. In 1824‚ at the age eleven he was chosen to give a speech to the Marquis de Lafayette out of his whole class. When graduating he was denied admission into many American colleges because of his color. Later he was able to raise enough money to go to
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the story is told through the eyes of a limited omniscient third-person narrator. This style is very accommodating to the story because it allows the author perfect opportunities to express his points. The narrator can both describe what Goodman Brown is doing‚ and also evaluate and comment on the characters actions. This is a tool of the author to use the narrator to express his own personal beliefs on mankind. The narrator possesses the capability of reading the thoughts and feelings of the protagonist
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In ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’‚ the composer‚ Doug Liman reveals the fact that a change in perspective is a natural part of life and that a change in perspective is inevitable. This can be seen in the scene where Jane is talking to her friend about what Jane must now do after finding that her husband was the shooter in the incident before hand. “You don’t love him?” “No”…”and you will kill him” “ok”. This dialogue between the two ladies shows the moment where Jane makes a decision that she doesn’t love
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protagonist describes in a conversational English with short sentences in a simple and abrupt way‚ slightly lacking of emotion and talking about common and everyday things. His descriptions don’t feature many details. At some points in the text‚ the narrator directly addresses the reader by often using the pronoun “you” and with insertions such as “Do you know what Europe is ?”. Besides‚ the absence of stylistic device and the clarity of the sentences should make the text easy to understand but the flow
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By most accounts‚ Bessie Smith was a rough‚ crude‚ violent woman. She was also one of the greatest Blues singers of the 1920s. The road that took her to the title “Empress of the Blues” was not an easy one. It was certainly not one of the romantic "rags to riches" tales that Horatio Alger made popular during her time. For a young black woman from the South the journey was anything but easy‚ and it would require a special kind of person‚ and Bessie Smith was definitely that. She was a woman who fought
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Both Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and John Smith hold different attitudes regarding their accounts of Indian life. The difference in attitudes may have resulted from the difference in treatments that each man received while in captivity. De Vaca’s experience is a humbling one. His account of Indian life is written in a thoughtful manner‚ and he describes the Indians kindly. While he describes his captivity as “melancholy and wretched” (De Vaca 34)‚ it’s clear that he harbors no ill feelings towards
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Brent Thomas U.S. History Since 1877 27 June 2012 John Marshall John Marshall‚ whose most notable political role of Chief Justice of the United States‚ played a major role in defining the American legal system‚ he was also known as one of the best Chief Justices that ever lived. For 34 years as Chief Justice‚ Marshall made significant contributions to the development of the U.S. Constitution through his high profile Supreme Court cases‚ such as Marbury v. Madison‚ McCulloch v. Maryland
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Alice Elliott Dark’s short story In the Gloaming captures Janet’s emotional turmoil using a selectively omniscient narrator. The effect of the third-person point of view allows the reader to sympathize with both Laird and Janet. However‚ because the narrator is strongly aligned with Janet‚ therefore in touch with her inner-thought and feelings‚ we can also view the story from the perspective of a mother. If Dark had written In the Gloaming in the first-person‚ the story would have lost its stark
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