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    children as trembling "visibly with anticipation" and the teachers being "respectful of the now quiet and aging seniors." Although it is autobiographical‚ an omniscient voice in the first six paragraphs describes how "they" - the black children in Stamps - felt and acted before the omniscient voice changes to a limited omniscient narration in the seventh paragraph. Her eloquent voice skillfully builds the tension as she demonstrates bigotry destroying innocence. The same consistent‚ expressive

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    for the well being of the hungry individual. * Are they starving? * How can hunger be art? * Presents and foreshadows the main character. * Images of suffering and starvation. Narrative perspective and tone: * Third person‚ omniscient. * Reader knows the actions and thoughts of all the characters. Characters and salient aspects: * The Hunger Artist: devoted to fasting‚ weak‚ helpless‚ humble‚ depressed‚ ignored‚ expresses himself through his fasting‚ his art. *

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    By using an omniscient narrator‚ TV series could enable audience to know more than characters‚ which creates Thriller-Suspense. Like in the case when Joyce is about to be killed‚ the audience can see the white shadow emerging from his back yet the character could not. “Secret”-Suspense and Detective-Suspense can also be created in the narration adopted omniscient Narrator strategy‚ yet omniscient Narrator is not the main reason to create these suspense. 5.1.2 Deviating from Chronological Order

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    environment. ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ by Melina Marchetta and ‘Tess of the d’Urbervilles’ by Thomas Hardy are two novels‚in which change is a major theme. Melina Marchetta uses techniques such as first-person narration and linear structure to perceive change in the novel‚while Hardy uses Omniscient narration and dialogue to percieve change. My understanding of change has been improved through situations the characters face and their changing perspectives of their environment. Through the changing perspectives

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    Challenges in Life “The Epic of Gilgamesh” is an ancient story by William Ellery Leonard that we have a written record and was recited for generation before it was inscribed on clay table in cuneiform script(6). Leonard presents challenges and experiences encountered by the powerful man Gilgamesh who ruled the city of Uruk in ancient Sumer‚ between 2700 and 2600 B.C (6). His power and strength lead the entire society to call upon the gods to make them another man who can take over form Gilgamesh

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    that he or she can identify and examine what effects that voice has on how they view the story. The voice that John Updike forms for Sammy‚ who is the main character‚ is both intentionally unpremeditated and rhythmically descriptive. Updike‚ in his narration‚ alternates between informal language‚ also known as slang‚ and sharp humor. According to John Updike’s point of view‚ Sammy is an intelligent and an uneducated teen who is capable of creating vividly described images in simple words. For example

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    symbolism and metaphors in the story. This third person narration provides an omniscient view on the main theme in the story- the coming of age in Jerry. Her use of third person narration allows her to explore the characters stream of consciousness such as‚ “She was thinking‚ Of course he’s old enough to be safe without me. Have I been keeping him too close? He mustn’t feel he ought to be with me. I must be careful”. This sort of narration allows Lessing to give detailed descriptions of the surroundings

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    back of an army captain ’s mind. Objective narration does not provide emotions‚ thoughts or motivations aside from the words or actions of the characters. While it may be argued that other points of view may "fill out" a story‚ objective narratives draw in a reader. One cannot read an objective narrative without having to think‚ conclude and fill in the blanks as to things like history‚ relationships and motivations. Characters in objective narration stories can only be understood through the personal

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    constable to arrive to give permission to bury the boy. Mark Brian conducts the ceremony and at the end he takes his first step to understanding the Kwakiutl people by leaving them to add their own ritual to the burial. Through third person omniscient narration we are told this with the line ‘he sensed there was something yet unfinished of which he had no part’ the narrator tells us what the priest is thinking in this situation which shows that the priest is trying to understand the Kwakiutl culture

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    Modernist literature is noticeably different as it is a movement away from the apparent objectivity provided by the fixed narrative points of view‚ omniscient third-person narration and obvious moral positions. Virginia Woolf‚ a modernist writer‚ wrote Modern Fiction in which she claims that the traditionalist novelists like H. G. Wells‚ Arnold Bennett and Galsworthy are ‘materialists’. Materialist are writers who believed that the great force that impacts an individual is the environment. On the

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