In Gary Gildner's short story "Sleepy Time Gal" the narrator had heard the story from his mother and his father so he combines the two perspectives to make his story more complete and interesting by at the same time adding his own point of view. ... The last paragraph of the story were the narrator mentions that they had been listening to the song that Phill had ended up selling was a good way of ending this point of view type of short story. ... If the narrator has a complicated and boring personality it definitely fails to appear in this short story "Sleepy Time Gal". ... The short stor...

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Explore how your chosen short story uses the elements of narrative to [engage] you as the reader: Narrative elements are importantly employed and developed throughout a text to further engage and develop the ideas and issues behind a text to the reader. The Test by Angelica Gibbs has used such elements of narrative such as setting, characterisation and diction to both emphasis and develop the dominant issues raised within this short story. The main convention behind a short story is its length and as such, the author of such a genre must condense, whilst still presenting a central theme ...

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Faulkner's choice to tell the story through the eyes of the townspeople is categorized as limited omniscience. ... The basic meaning of dynamic is in essence the underlying theme of this short story. ... Faulkner purposely chose this point of view to avoid these misinterpretations and to secure his story's relevance and validity. ... Perhaps the very fact that times are changing, therefore new unorthodox ways of writing, causes Faulkner to choose this different for of narrating his short stories. ... The point of view in a story usually can shed light on the theme to a story, an...

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Firstly the concept of unnatural storyworlds mean that do not comply with what the reader knows is otherwise physically, logically, or humanly impossible in the physical world; one example of this could be Robert Cover`s "The Babysitter" a short story which depicts numerous irreconcilable event sequences. ... The most important example of this could be The Tell-Tale Heart; is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe in which the narrator tries to persuade us of his sanity while he is describing a murder that he committed. ... With this story the author intends to convey us, through unreliabl...

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The description of the characters in Of Mice and Men is not entirely objective either, and is not short of hyperbole and exaggeration. ... As a first person narrator is himself immersed in the timeframe of the story, his role will be very different from that of a third person narrator, who is detached from both the events and timeframe of the story. In The Great Gatsby, Nick is unaware of the conclusion of the story and hence is unraveling the story with no pre-set intention in relation depiction of the plot. ... In Of Mice and Men, however, the third person narrator tells the story with the e...

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In this way the time-frame of the narration - that is the point in time from which Jane is telling us the story - is made uncertain throughout the novel. ... Only at the very end of the novel are we given any definite indication of the timeframe the story. ... We now know, then, that the main events of the story are removed from Jane's present by a considerable length of time, but as the novel is read, especially for the first time when the reader is unaware of this time-frame, Bronte presents Jane's narration in such a way as to bring the story as much into the reader's prese...

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The struggle to be complacent within the collective is what brings harm and trouble within the story for the individuals that are singled out within the film. ... The film portrays almost a anti-hero stance towards Pancho Villa, the Mexican Revolutionary the film bases itself off of, even though he is only shown in sporadic scenes throughout the story. ... The groups social and political goals are cut short by the very struggle they helped fight for, in the end leaving a anti-climatic yet realistic resolution to the idea of manhood in battle. ... The film is an example of the French Popular F...

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In James Joyce's short story Araby he is successful in creating an intense narrative. ... The way in which Joyce writes this story he includes an immense amount of detail and imagery that quickly captures the attention of the reader and is so real the reader feels as if they were actually a part of the story. ... The dark, drab words the narrator uses may also be used to foreshadow the somberness the boy will experience at the end of the story when the lights go out at the Bazaar. ... This delay could have been inserted into the story to prepare the reader for the boy's ultimate...

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Therefore, narratively speaking, this short thirty-second clip summarizes the entire movie's plot. At first, the movie starts off music in the background that appears to be non-diegetic; that is, the sound seems to be coming from a source outside the story space. ...

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In my view the absence of these vital features of structure are a let down for the reader's expectations, but it is made up for by a sizzling background story filled with love, betrayal and murder. ... An interesting and distinctive point of the structure is the development of chapter length from short to long as the book progresses. ... Sometimes not conforming to Standard English language conventions and thinking a bit outside the square can lead to a more believable and appealing story....

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This can include the possibility of the story looping back on earlier sections, and is often used to mimic the structure and recall of human memory (Askham). ... By retelling the same story three times, Tykwer is able to present three contrasting endings, and drastically defy our expectations. ... "Run Lola Run" offers three alternative narratives, each comprising the same story, but told in contrasting ways. Tykwer shows that it is possible to "retell a story numerous times, and make each rendering compelling by making subtle changes"." ... Tykwer makes it very clear to audiences that we are ...

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Published in 1910, the story of "Howard's End" takes place during a period of great change. ... Overall this short syntactical arrangement creates a quite powerful allegory; without people like Henry, England would fail to exist. ... She continues with short bursts of syntax to confirm the reasons for this; first she states that '[h]e's afraid of emotion' and 'cares too much about success', before lambasting him further by suggesting that his 'sympathy lacks poetry'. ...

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On that basis, technology is shaping the way stories are told in the digital era. ... Are VFX used as a substitution for good story? ... The Whitney brothers invented CGI in the 1960s when they used computers and optical printers to generate short films (McClean 2007). ... However, it was criticized for depending too much on the computer graphic without offering an attractive story or characters (McClean 2007). ... Most stories will involve a problem that disrupt the Ordinary World and call the Hero to the adventure. ...

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He also made use of interviews of people involved with the case which showed both sides of the story at the same time editing the interviews according to how he wanted the structure of the film to flow. ... Through stylistic, and narrative elements the manipulative style of the film enabled its truth to unfold in accordance with the directors motivation, without falling short of characteristics of a documentary. ...

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From dog-fighting in Mexico to issues of transsexuality in Cuba, contemporary Latin American cinema covers a diverse array of topics. Lauren Mulvey, British feminist film theorist, uses pyschoanaylitics to offer a feminist critique of all classical narrative cinema. She establishes that narrative cinema is viewed from the male gaze and women are coded for their "to-be-looked-at-ness". She offers that female characters add nothing or very little to actual elements of plot and character but rather are subjected to male scopophilia, the fetishistic and voyeuristic, due to phallocentrici...

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