2013 Area of Study: Change The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger Analysis Questions Chapter 1 - We meet Holden Caulfield (pp. 1- 5) 1. What evidence is there to suggest that our narrator is currently receiving medical treatment/ recuperating? (Please refer to p. 1 & p. 4). 2. In what ways does our narrator appear to be an ‘outsider’? 3. Why does Holden get expelled from Pencey Prep? 4. Consider why Salinger waits until the end of the chapter to reveal Holden’s name? Chapter
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Mark Twain chose Huck Finn to be the narrator to make the story more realistic and so that Mark Twain could get the reader to examine their own attitudes and beliefs by comparing themselves to Huck‚ a simple uneducated character. Twain was limited in expressing his thoughts by the fact that Huck Finn is a living‚ breathing person who is telling the story. Since the book is written in first person‚ Twain had to put himself in the place of a thirteen-year-old son of the town drunkard. He had to see
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from the Midwest who is living in West Egg surrounded by wealth. He is different from the others possessing a quality that is very rare‚ the ability to “refrain from judgment” (Fitzgerald 1). The fact that he is a neutral character makes him a great narrator‚ he is able to clearly tell the story through his point of view‚ expressing
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who have read Edgar Allen Poe’s‚ "The Tell-Tale Heart‚" have stated the narrator is insane‚ a closer look shows that he is actually sane by means of nervousness‚ patience‚ and murder. Edgar Allen Poe’s‚ "The Tell Tale Heart‚" is a short story about a killer’s morality consuming the narrator and a battle between the narrator being insane‚ or if he is suffering from over-acuteness of the senses. Poe suggests the narrator is sane by the narrator’s claim of sanity‚ "True! - nervous-very‚ very dreadfully
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that the narrator is mad by making him talk and shout directly at us‚ by using exclamation marks as his punctuation. When you read what the narrator is saying to you‚ you can feel the emotion‚ and hear the speed and volume of his voice. He does this by the use of punctuation‚ short sentences‚ and putting some words into capitals; one example of a capital worded sentence is‚ ‘it was A LOW‚ DULL‚ QUICK SOUND – MUCH SUCH A SOUND AS A WATCH MAKES WHEN ENVELOPED IN COTTON.’ The effect the narrator has on
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NICK THE FLAWED NARRATOR NICK CARRAWAY has a special place in this novel. He is not just one character among several‚ it is through his eyes and ears that we form our opinions of the other characters. Often‚ readers of this novel confuse Nick ’s stance towards those characters and the world he describes with those of F. Scott Fitzgerald ’s because the fictional world he has created closely resembles the world he himself experienced. But not every narrator is the voice of the author. Before
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unnamed narrator in ‘Araby’. In both James Joyce’s “Araby” and Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace‚” the reader is brought into the pursuits of desires of the protagonists. In “Araby”‚ the portrayal of desire reflects the need for spiritual stability and understanding in the confused religious society. In contrast‚ the desire in “The Necklace” reveals a person’s inner need of being loved and being seen as important in the social environment. Both Mathilde and the unnamed narrator fantasize
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Character Sketch of the Narrator in "Was it a Dream?" By Guy de Maupassant In the first paragraph alone‚ many important aspects of the narrator’s character are revealed. It is revealed to the reader that the narrator was in love and is grieving for the woman he loved. It is also in the first paragraph where the major conflict is revealed. The major conflict‚ in which the narrator is involved‚ is his own torment from the memory of his dead wife. This is evident when the narrator says‚ "When I saw
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The Raft ”His face is so perfectly round that his smile looks like a gash in a basketball.” In this essay I’m going to focus on narrator‚ characterization‚ time aspect‚ symbols and the setting. The short story is written by Peter Orner in 2000. The short story is about a conversation between a 12‚ soon 13 years old boy‚ and his grandfather‚ Seymour‚ who commands a destroyer. It is about war and what a war can do to each individual soldier after killing another human being. “The Raft” takes
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To what extent is the narrator of ‘My Last Duchess’ a disturbing character? ‘My Last Duchess’ is a dramatic monologue written by the celebrated poet Robert Browning. Browning has structured the poem in rhyming couplets and with iambic pentameter. This creates a comfortable rhythm when read aloud. The poem is from the point of view of a Duke‚ and set in the 16th Century Italy. At this time men were very much in control of their wives‚ and viewed them as their ‘property’. This is shown frequently
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