It can be observed in Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man that James Joyce changes his narrative voice and style of writing throughout the book. In the first chapter, when Stephen is still very young at Conglowes College, the book is narrated in a stream of consciousness, without well structured paragraphs or a clear purpose to some statements. ... This childlike writing style does make the book feel more realistic, but it is not what makes it so great in the eyes of scholars. ... Stephen's references to famous scholars and authors from the real world shows his knowledge of literature...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Instead of conventional chapters and sections, The Bluest Eye is broken up into seasons, fall, winter, spring, and summer. ... Further, dividing the book are small excerpts from the "Dick and Jane" primer that is the archetype of the white upper-middle class lifestyle. ... The excerpts from "Dick and Jane" that head each "chapter" are typeset without any spaces or punctuation marks. ...

• Word Count: 609
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The first and most interesting point worth examining in William Wells Brown's narrative is how the title of his book is written. ... In Chapter XI, Brown writes of his first attempt to escape slavery by traveling to Canada and then adds, "American democracy behind, liberty ahead....

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"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," by Mark Haddon, integrates unique elements of structure, language style and character narration to really deliver a rare, wonderful and one of a kind book that truly brings up thought provoking issues and is overall a satisfying read. ... Although the book starts of with a usual inquisitive narrative hook, it is really lacking in an imaginative plot, climax and ending. ... An interesting and distinctive point of the structure is the development of chapter length from short to long as the book progresses. ... For instance in one scene in the ...

• Word Count: 1041
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At the very beginning of the chapter entitled 'conclusion', Jane delivers what is perhaps the most famous line of the whole novel. "Reader, I married him," she says, pinning down for certain the time from which Jane is speaking - her 'present' (that we reach at the end of the book) - as some time after the events took place. ... At the beginning of chapter eleven, after Jane's departure from Lowood, she tells the reader "I sit in my cloak. ... "A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play," she tells the reader. ...

• Word Count: 2174
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In addition, the narrative was also divided into twelve chapters, which lucidly relate Douglass' experiences as a slave through the beginnings of his career as an abolitionist. ... As we have seen the book cover contains some external cues that are quite important for the reader such as the book title and the author's name and then contains you have another key element which is the portrait or photograph of the subject of the narrative and then you have an authenticating testimonial which it is the preface. ...

• Word Count: 2277
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate