Nadine Farid IB 15/04/2015 Reliability of Nick Carraway as the narrator of S. Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby”: The story is about Nick’s perception of‚ opinions on‚ and thoughts about other characters and events. What makes a narrator unreliable with a compromised point of view? Can’t be trusted because they: 1. Lie 2.Make mistakes 3. Speaks with bias 4. Intoxicated/ hallucinations/ memory distortion 5.Are
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Myers‚ Walter Dean. (b. 1937)‚ poet‚ editor‚ and novelist. A versatile and prolific writer‚ Walter Dean Myers (also Walter M. Myers) has published short fiction‚ essays‚ and poetry in such disparate periodicals as the Liberator‚ Negro Digest‚ McCall’s‚ Essence‚ Espionage‚ and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. He was a regular contributor to men’s magazines until‚ as he says‚ "they gave themselves up to pornography." In 1968‚ he wrote his first children’s book as an entry to a contest sponsored
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include short stories and novels. The importance of the narrator goes beyond the act of simply telling a story that happens in a specific place at one particular point in time. Through the course of the years‚ famous writers have used the narrator as a tool to create suspense and force the audience to read the story from a specific point of view. Within this group of writers‚ William Faulkner and Charlotte Perkins Gilman have used the narrator to allow the reader to interpret the story from a desired
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Jackson Dean - the first thing I ever learned about myself‚ something that has always been with me and will never change. Growing up with this name was very typical‚ it wasn’t like my name was something unheard of‚ of crazily odd‚ it was just normal. Other kids complained about their names and how they didn’t like them or how they sounded weird‚ but I never had that problem. To me‚ Jackson Dean is just a name passed down from previous generations‚ I never knew the true meaning of it‚ or why my parents
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The Narrator Sets the Tone Authors often use narrative to influence the way the reader perceives a given topic. Using different types of narrators‚ for example first person or omnipotent‚ the author can control the information available to the reader‚ which causes the reader to draw conclusions based solely on the information as presented. In “A Rose for Emily”( 84 ) the author uses a limited omnipotent narrator to relay the events over a period of several decades that relate to Miss Emily
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a hot summer in an American town called Franconia. According to the narrator this town is an awfully drab place to live‚ and a place‚ where “no one’s imagination is working overtime”. This is the uninspiring suburb‚ where the narrator lives with her brother‚ Jason and her mother. Along with Jason’s best friend‚ Eugene‚ the narrator and Jason study at the Franconia High School. Although Eugene is Jason’s best friend‚ the narrator and Eugene have a lot in common. They both seem to be really clever
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Sonny and the narrator become very close . Throughout the story ‚ both the narrator and Sonny over come many obstacles . These events that take place in the story‚ influence the character development of Sonny and the narrator . If it weren’t for these events that take place ‚ then Sonny and the narrator wouldn’t have developed the way that they do by the end of this story . When Sonny is faced with the hardship of having to go to prison ‚ this is hard for him but having the narrator their for
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as the changing from boys to men‚ in the beginning of the story the narrator and his friends were compared to nature‚ which can relate to the many ironic events that happen to the narrator. Some of The circumstances that the narrator in "Greasy Lake" finds himself in‚ are the same that many young people find themselves in when fighting war. One of the many things that took place was when the narrator sees himself as a tough guy or "bad character". He believes he is invincible
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and death is told and remarked on‚ by a narrator whose full name is not given‚ but whom one may take to be a spokesperson for the author It may not be narrator by her‚ but the former prisoner and mathematics teacher know her very well. Matryona was a person who worked on a farm and barely gets paid and when she does it’s not much. The narrator as well works on the collective farm‚ at school‚ as we know Matryona is a kind person and she gives the narrator a person to stay in her small home‚ he sleeps
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Is Nick carraway a reliable narrator? In the beginning of the book‚ The Great Gatsby‚ Nick could be described as the main character but as the book goes on Nick is having more of a secondary role‚ instead of the primary role which he was supposed to be. The Great Gatsby is shown through the eyes of one man. We as the readers don’t know whether or not whatever Nick says is correct or true. A good narrator doesn’t judge people but Nick does this a lot. We see how he changes at different points in
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