Jake Marasco 2/5/13 Per. 5 Honors English The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy starts with Earthman Arthur Dent facing the demolition of his house to make way for a motorway bypass. He was then met by hi friend Ford Prefect who had three things to tell him: He was an alien from Beetlegeuse‚ He was a writer for the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy‚ and the Earth was about to be destroyed. Arthur and Ford get picked up by a Vogon ship avoiding their destruction
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the use of a stream of consciousness style of composition; Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear At five o ’ clock in the morning. Stream of consciousness is essentially a narrative technique in which a writer presents directly the uninterrupted flow of a character ’s thoughts‚ impressions‚ and feelings‚ without the conventional devices of dialogue‚ punctuation and description. Leading exponents of stream of consciousness have included
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entrance of "an old Englishwoman and her daughter"‚ told to the reader by the omniscient narrator written in first-person. This extract is written in a stream-of-consciousness as there is some attempt of presenting to the reader what is going on in the mind of the narrator himself‚ as well as the characters presented in the extract. This stream-of-consciousness style is typical of the period studied. Another feature typical of the period studied is the black humour used. A
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Kafkaesque‚ to adequately and briefly describe it. Kafka’s works are unique from earlier literature because of his technical writing style. The technical writing style refers to the literary devices used in the work‚ such as metaphors‚ stream of consciousness narrative‚ and ambiguity. It is difficult for writers to recapture the Kafkaesque feeling of alienation felt when reading in The Metamorphosis‚
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criticises the social repression of women through a stream of consciousness mode and language in her novel. This value is a reflection of the post-war‚ androcentric society in which the book was written. This context is mirrored in Mrs Dalloway through the character Clarissa Dalloway. Her quote “...not being Clarissa anymore; this being Mrs Richard Dalloway.” conveys the loss of identity felt by repressed women. Woolf’s stream of consciousness mode highlights the dichotomy between Clarissa’s public
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This is true of the conventions of To the Lighthouse. Therefore the literary form used was very much experimental. Woolf uses a ‘stream of consciousness’ narration that is meant to represent real life‚ “Is life like this? Must novels be like this? ... Life is not symmetrically arranged…life is a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end”. Woolf presents us with the ephemeral moments of multiple characters attempting to find meaning in their lives. Woolf then
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Girl‚ a narrative written by Jamaica Kincaid‚ is a short story written in a dialogue style and stream of consciousness narration. The speaker is an authoritative female figure who teaches a girl about traditional living and the obligations of a girl to society. The narrative is basically one large sentence. Its ideas are separated by semicolons instead of the usual periods. Jamaica Kincaid’s short biography found in www.english.emory.edu by Vanessa Pupello: “Jamaica Kincaid was born in 1949 as Elaine
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“Dubliners” written in third person narration‚ stream-of-consciousness technique and written from a woman`s perspective. Through the whole story Eveline herself is the focaliser. James Joyce used verbal hints like “watching...saw...looked” and the image of Eveline looking out of the window and around the room so that the text can easily be visualised. The authors think of the nine spoken lines in the short story as interruptions of the stream-of-consciousness but also mentions their importance as they
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Katherine Anne Porter’s The Jilting of Granny Weatherall "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" was written by Katherine Anne Porter and first published in 1930. The story is of a women named Granny Weatherall who is on her deathbed. As she is surrounded by friends and family she remembers the life she has lived. She describes being jilted many times in her life‚ first by her husband-to-be and finally by death. The story was eventually made into a movie directed by Randa Haines. A major theme
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Born in late 1897‚ William Faulkner was a famous prolific writer who has been regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Faulkner came from an old southern family‚ growing up in Oxford‚ Mississippi. He joined the Canadian‚ and later the British Royal Air Force during World War I‚ and studied for a while at the University of Mississippi. He also temporarily worked for a New York bookstore and a New Orleans newspaper. He is remembered for being both a Southern gentleman
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