Charles Dickens applies a variety of techniques in the opening of his novel "Great Expectations" which allow us to gain a deeper understanding of the novel. ... " The novel immediately introduces Philip Pirrip, who calls himself Pip as he explains, as the narrator of the novel in two different ways. ... " This comical idea also introduces many themes into the novel. ... His novel was not published as one full book, it was released on a weekly basis. ... It is also a very successful novel in its genre and historical context....

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However, before delving into the past, Fitzgerald starts his novel in the present where he evaluates the four main characters in the novel. ... All values and judgements are those of Nick's which helps to maintain simplicity and give the novel its cohesiveness. Fitzgerald continues to keep his novel simple by being highly selective in the material which he chooses to include into the plot. ... By quickly progressing from one important event to the next, Fitzgerald is able to highlight many issues in his novel and uses the convention of structure. ... Additionally, juxtaposition is incorpo...

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Yes, we do see Jane mature through the novel, but the fact that the whole story is being told by a narrator who speaks to us disrupts the progress of a pure Bildungsroman, by introducing the mature Jane early on in the novel, rather than only at the end, after the "struggle " has been overcome. ... Only at the very end of the novel are we given any definite indication of the timeframe the story. At the very beginning of the chapter entitled 'conclusion', Jane delivers what is perhaps the most famous line of the whole novel. ... "A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scen...

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Within novels, first person narratives are usually considered an unreliable outlook upon the events because they portray a biased outlook upon the events. ... Joe becomes a more credible narrator because of his personality and the way in which he is portrayed throughout the novel by the author. ... However, as the novel precedes it seems he becomes increasingly "obsessed" with Jed Parry's obsession with him. ... Throughout the novel Joe suspends his own narration to allow the reader the advantage of a narrative from another character. ... As the novel continues Joe suspends his narrative ...

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Toni Morisson's novel The Bluest Eye is about the life of the Breedlove family who resides in Lorain, Ohio, in the late 1930s. ... The novel's focal point is the daughter, an eleven-year-old Black girl who is trying to conquer a bout with self-hatred. ... Narration in novel comes from several sources. ... In addition to narrative structure, the structure and composition of the novel itself help to illustrate how much and for how long white ideas of family and home have been forced into black culture. ... The name of the novel, "The Bluest Eye," is meant to get the reader thinking abo...

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This is demonstrated in the novel when Christopher set's out on what is for him an epic adventure, to find his mother in London. ... Exceptionally exclusive facets of structure such as these certainly set the standard for an appealing and pleasing novel. ... The clever language used is a vital part of the overall success of the novel and Mark Haddon has really fine tuned this aspect to the advantage of the books creative appeal and credibility. ... Inclusion of a prime numbering system I thought was really clever and immediately added interest and variation from other novels. ... ...

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The sexual imagery attached to the description of the snake also highlights its place as a phallic symbol within the novel, "His abdominal muscularity, his loathsome, fluid motion, somehow made me sick." Jim's revolution towards the snake further accentuates how the idea of the male is treated within the novel, opening up a space for a lesbian narrative to be formed. ... Cather also perhaps expresses how her sexuality does not make her unequal to men or heterosexual relationships in this particular line in the novel. ... Perhaps this event can be taken as Cather's way of positi...

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In William Goldman's novel The Princess Bride and the film by the same name, we can see how changing mediums, audiences and perspectives alter the lingual and visual techniques used, and the subsequent change in the form and effect of the story. ... In the novel, the "omission" of pages of information describing thoroughly irrelevant things mocks the extensive use of description and tangents in stories, but ironically this information in itself is omitted for the film. For the film, the story is removed from its context as an abridged novel to become a satirical story in its own right...

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Virginia Woolf attaches great importance to this phenomenon in her novel Mrs. ... Being published in 1925, Virginia Woolf´s novel Mrs. Dalloway is an exemplar of "Modernist Literature" of which the literature is famous for turning the conventional novel format upside down, and experimenting with time and order, perspective, and point of view. ... So there is no objective reality in the novel, and the reader cannot say for sure that a character is like this or that, but he has to rely on the novel´s character´s impressions and on his sense of sympathy. ... In this manner the novelÂ...

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E.M Forster's widely admired novel "Howard's End," provides a detailed portrayal of life in Edwardian England; a series of characters exposed as if under a literary microscope. ... Throughout the novel, the readers is gradually introduced to the intricate outer and inner tensions and trappings of society which are crowding in around the Schlegel family (idealistic, intellectual), and the Wilcox family (pragmatic, materialistic aspect). ... Their direct interactions form a prominent feature of the novel as a whole; as intelligent and articulate characters, through voice and focalizat...

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In Toni Morrison's novel "The Bluest Eye", the distortion of beauty instilled within Black Americans of the late 20th century are portrayed (taken apart?) ... On pages 21-22 of the novel, the protagonist Claudia recounts her Christmas memory of receiving a fair skinned doll. ... One of the novel's most visually powerful motifs, Claudia's doll, is introduced in this extract. ...

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One instance could be Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando because is challenging the notions of time. ... The novel narrates the adventures of a starving young man whose sense of reality is giving way to a delusionary existence. ...

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The structure of the Grapes of Wrath is unique in that it alternates between specific narrative chapters about the Joad family and general intercalary chapters about the migrant workers as a whole. In the narrative chapters, Steinbeck tries to keep his style simple, helping the readers grasp t...

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Ultimately Mingus Remixed has many literary elements of fiction such as characterization, point of view, plot, style, tone, and storytelling within its unorthodox structure; that it is narrated like a novel while also being dramatically performed by Shabaka, which allows for a unique literary experience....

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All through the novel, the character Daniel tries to put past and present together in order to understand the events that take place during the era involved, whereas understanding the culture of the society he is part of. ...

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Every day we listen to many different discourses and we do not stop to analyze how it is that we can comprehend and sometimes memorize these dialogues, speeches, debates, or conversations. Discourse comprehension is the act of interpreting a written or spoken message by integrating the received inf...

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Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, are two novels that deal with the tragic culmination of the American Dream, personified through respective protagonists. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate