This essay seeks to discover how Atkinson uses the past, footnotes, setting and her post modernist style as a technique in the treatment of time. The narrative is a common first person narrative, but at the same time, it is very unusual. ... This technique gives Ruby a more "knowing" voice that can see ahead of us but is still unable to share with us the withdrawn knowledge that she is trying to find out herself. ... Atkinson uses footnotes as another technique. ... In Behind the scenes at the museum, Atkinson is able to skilfully and originally bring her all her characters to life using...

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• Grade Level: High School

Employs a multiple narrator technique, it uses the varying voices and points of view of a number of characters to examine the life and character of Thomas Sutpen, a tragic figure who tries and fails to build a family dynasty in Yoknapatawpha County. ... The main story pieced together from the various narratives is interesting. ... The narrative structure throughout each chapter jumps back and forth between internal and external, back and forth between different characters' thoughts. Faulkner's use of narrative in Absalom, Absalom! ... is said to contain the most orig...

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• Grade Level: High School

The conventions that are used, such as narrative conventions, characterisation and settings have been used in surprising ways by the author and the director. Both the film and novel employ techniques in an unusual way to engage the reader/viewer and portray the theme of redemption. ... Not only does Tsotsi neatly resolve its narrative with a redemptive conclusion that portrays a more hopeful humanity than would probably be the case in historical reality, it also adopts a genre that could become a vogue for representations of black South African experience, namely a black gangster genre....

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Through the use of techniques such as characterisation, language and imagery, Monk examines the personal experience of institutions. ... The author uses the 3rd person narrative but tells the story from Brett's perspective as he arrives at The Farm. ... Conclusion Monk uses a range of techniques to explore the responses individuals can experience when exposed to the influence of institutional power. ...

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He used this technique to dramatize the complexity of life and the difficulty of arriving at truth. " Reality and life weave together in one of Faulkner's many novels, As I Lay Dying. "William Faulkner's outrageous story of the Bundren family is undoubtedly one of his most complex and enigmatic novels; complex because beneath the surface narrative of a grotesque journey, we are terrifying depths of human significance; enigmatic, because we never seem to be certain in what sense the novels control our responses," states Jan Bakker. ... Faulkner's technique enables us to watch...

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• Grade Level: High School

Forster's techniques in this novel allow the reader to stay fully engaged and ask many questions before reaching the end of the novel. The narrative technique of psychonarration helps the reader understand how Mr. ...

• Word Count: 2048
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School