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    Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God is the story of one black woman’s attempt to realize her dreams and to achieve happiness in her life. Throughout the book‚ the reader follows Janie Woods as she travels from one man to the next and from one town to the next in search of happiness‚ freedom‚ and love. Janie abandons her first husband and the oppressive‚ conventional life that she lives with him in order to pursue a more stimulating‚ adventurous‚ and exciting one with Jody Sparks.

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    meanings and themes. One of his most analyzed works is his short story "A Rose for Emily". While Faulkner uses numerous techniques and strategies which include the chronology of the story‚ his strongest weapon is his usage of the narrator as an omniscient gossip. Thomas Dilworth says that "the narrator is as important to the plot as Emily Grierson.(Dilworth). Whether this is true or not‚ the narrator is an important part that helps makes the story what it is‚ a great Southern short story. While

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    extreme‚ of the coutntertraditional experiments of modernism. Art became a form of expressing ideas‚ political context was very strong in few cases. A movement (in novels) away from the apparent objectivity provided by such features as : omniscient external narration‚ fixed narrative points of view and clear- cut moral positions. It was a time when new liking for fragmented forms‚ discontinuous narratives and random-seeming collages of disparate materials. There was a tendency towards ‘reflexivity’

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    Use of similes:(like an elderly leopard‚ like a fish‚ like a setter… etc.) It helps to understand the characters better by indirect characterization. Character’s actions and emotions are explained. It also creates the tone and mood. Narration: Third person omniscient limited It is useful for

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    As one of the first American naturalist writers‚ Stephen Crane injected his own philosophy on life in his realist stories. Some of Crane’s short stories‚ including The Blue Hotel‚ and The Open Boat‚ all reflect his negative anthropology. Crane displays this in different ways in his short stories‚ for example‚ by not giving many of his characters names‚ switching narrative perspectives‚ and by frequently using self-importance as many of his character’s driving force. Crane thinks humans are ignorant

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    analysis belongs to the belles-letters functional style‚ the main aim of which to give the readers aesthetic pleasure‚ to make them think and to entertain them by appealing to their emotions. It is told in the 3rd person narration from the point of view of an anonymous omniscient narrator and interspersed with dialogues and an example of the reported inner speech Trudy thought I’d better shut up. In the extract of the scene is laid in a lake town Bleilach where Trudy and Gwen stayed. It was quite

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    unaltered. In the 20th century‚ instead‚ preoccupation began to shift from society to man himself; characters became all important‚ because of their inner selves and not because of what was going on outside and around them. The novelist rejected omniscient narration and experimented new methods to portray the individual consciousness; the viewpoint shifted from the external world to the internal world of a character’s mind. The analysis of a character’s consciousness was influenced by the theories about

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    Cannot See does not represent the suffering of any group or country‚ and does not only represent the crimes committed by the Nazi Germans specifically. It is about the tragedy of the Second World War in general. The narration in All The Light We Cannot See‚ third-person omniscient‚ is significant‚ as it tells the story from the perspective of a German boy‚ Werner‚ a French girl‚ Marie-Laure‚ and American bombers/soldiers. For instance‚ the second chapter is told from the perspective of the American

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    “The Most Dangerous Game‚” by Richard Connell‚ is a narrative about Mr. Sanger Rainsford‚ a celebrated hunter‚ who finds himself on a secluded island after falling overboard a yacht. Rainsford locates a large building on the island and meets General Zaroff‚ who invites him to rest and replenish his health in his home. After Zaroff explains that he also enjoys hunting‚ he also reveals that he has discovered a new‚ more dangerous animal to hunt: humans. Zaroff forces Rainsford to become the hunted

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    details – they must be correct and accurate – Must be an original essay‚ written in your own words – Be sure to introduce the title and author – Avoid judgments – Use present tense when retelling a story Elements of Fiction • Essence of fiction = narration (the telling) • Elements of fiction = verisimilitude and donnee – Verisimilitude = realism • Must be compelling enough that the reader can “suspend disbelief” – Donnee = premise •

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