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    that this chapter of the novel is more Joe trying to understand Clarissa’s point of view rather than actually telling the story from her perspective‚ showing the reader only what Joe think she feels other than what she actually does. Creating an unreliable narrative. Also in chapter 9 the genre is portrayed as more of a romance than a thriller as McEwan uses contemporary romance rather than scientific vocabulary within the narrative‚ ‘Where’s my kiss? Hug me! Take care of me!’ The use of this romantic

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    entail a beginning‚ middle and an end.2 In Muriel Spark’s novel ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’‚ the author has challenged this traditional format through illustrating events in an anachronical form and through the inclusion of a universal omniscient narrator‚ which has resulted in a build up of suspense‚ reinforced the novels thematic richness and enabled the reader to recognise the development of characters throughout. Reflecting upon Forster’s belief‚ I would have to disagree with this and feel that

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    he sacrifices his own pride and reputation to save an American lady’s marriage.As a result‚ he earns the respect of the narrator. THE SETTING Time – a short time after World War I. It is mentioned for two reasons. First‚ it justifies the accidental meeting in the same cabin of the narrator and Mr. Kelada. The passenger traffic on the ocean-liners was heavy‚ so the narrator had to agree to share acabin with a person he disliked. Second‚ it may give us a possible reason for thenarrator’s unjustified

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    “The reliability of the narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ in the Great Gatsby is limited”. Is this statement true? Further your response by making links to the narrator in The Sun Also Rises. Many would say that The Great Gatsby is a book that is hard to clarify. The reader of the book must comprehend views from all characters‚ the main one being the narrator‚ Nick Carraway. The reader must also take into consideration the time period of which the book is written (the 1920’s‚ similarly to The Sun Also Rises

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    of Port William in the late summer of 1888. We are lead through the story by a third person narrator that is supposed to be our protagonist’s grandson Andy‚ who has written down his grandfather’s story using Mat’s person as the point of view. Mat however is only a five year old when he experiences what his grandson will eventually write down‚ which makes an interesting angle although maybe quite unreliable as he was so young and told the story on so many years after. As a result of this everything

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    is please with how she has done as a carer but also that she is aware that boasting too much can “get peoples backs up.” This also shows that she sees herself as privileged as she is “a Hailsham student.” Kathy is also portrayed as an unreliable narrator as she describes herself as “not the wilting type” although she “walked off” when confronted with an argument with Ruth. This also implies that she could have twisted her memory so that her childhood seems happier to her. It also shows how memory

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    result‚ a pattern of basic contradictions and abnormal attitudes emerges which gives structure to the story and forecasts its conclusion. The key to recognizing this deeper‚ ironic level is to carefully distinguish between the story’s narrator‚ author‚ and unreliable protagonist. Seyersted’s early biography of Chopin describes the story neutrally as “an extreme example of the theme of self-assertion.”2 More recent interpretation has largely followed a strong‚ and at times an extreme‚ feminist bent

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    omniscient is a narrative mode in which a story is presented by a narrator with an overarching point of view‚ seeing and knowing everything that happens within the world of the story‚ including what each of the characters is thinking and feeling.[1] It is the most common narrative mode found in sprawling‚ epic stories such as George Eliot’s Middlemarch. The godlike all-knowing perspective of the third-person omniscient allows the narrator to tell the reader things that none of the characters know‚ or

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    Instructions for Sequence Analysis A. State the "message(s)" of the scene or sequence‚ i.e.‚ what is the filmmaker trying to communicate? B. Justify your statement in A by explaining how the five main channels of information in film--visual image‚ print and other graphics‚ speech‚ music‚ noise (sound effects)--work together to communicate it. Note that not all films make use of all five channels (e.g.‚ print and graphics were common in the era of the silent film) and‚ further‚ that the intermittent

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    Write about the ways Fitzgerald tells the story in Chapter 7. (21) Language | Structure | Form | * Dramatic dialogue/ theatrical and climactic moments. “is career as Trimalchio was over”‚ foreshadows that Gatsby is no longer a source of satisfaction‚ the tone Is unsettling and sinister. Also known to be former slave that made a fortune from being famous for parties * Tension in Tom’s violent discourse * Irony of Mendelssohn Wedding March * Pathetic fallacy through the use of hottest

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