Joe pauses within his narrative to permit himself more detailed reflection on the events, for example at the start of chapter two; "Best to slow down. Let's give the half minute after John Logan's fall careful consideration." ... Later chapters of the novel are dominated by the fact that Joe constantly analyses and reanalyses events, reiterating the suggestion of obsession. ... The opening chapter concentrates on the perspectives of detached observers to the "balloon incident" as well as Joe's lengthy analytical one. ... As the novel continues Joe suspends his narrative yet a...

• Word Count: 1247
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Consider the narrators sexual relationships, woman are portrayed in the novel as wanting sex and emotion, which the narrator does not want to give them. ... In the first chapter we see the boy going out hunting with aboriginal children, forbidden to identify his heritage. In the last chapter we see the man he has become embracing his heritage and finding a kind of happiness. ...

• Word Count: 560
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Much of the narration comes from Claudia MacTeer as a nine year old child, but Morrison also gives the reader the insight of Claudia reflecting on the story as an adult, some first person narration from Pecola's mother, and narration by Morrison herself as an omniscient narrator. ... Instead of conventional chapters and sections, The Bluest Eye is broken up into seasons, fall, winter, spring, and summer. ... The excerpts from "Dick and Jane" that head each "chapter" are typeset without any spaces or punctuation marks. ...

• Word Count: 609
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Morrison was not an ex-slave nor did she grow up in a family of ex-slaves, giving her no credibility in the factual information; she wrote this novel as a ghost story, which further withdrew from the sense of realism in the story. ... In "Beloved," the only character insight the reader receives is in the last few chapters which are told from the Sethe's, Denver's, and "Beloved's" point of view. Even in these chapters, Morrison's bias is dominant. Other narrative and historical stories, such as "Heart of Darkness," could replace "Beloved" on reading lists because the bias is...

• Word Count: 1397
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Obviously, in presenting this narrator as a woman, Bronte creates from the outset a sense of defiance of Victorian societal convention, but in telling the story through one character, Bronte is also able to give a reality and vitality to the story, as well as to manipulate the time-frame of the narration, and control and direct the reader's impression and understanding of other characters. ... At the very beginning of the chapter entitled 'conclusion', Jane delivers what is perhaps the most famous line of the whole novel. ... The use of "may"" rather than "could"" suggests a cu...

• Word Count: 2174
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Stanley, and the others, are allowing themselves naively to be bullied by X ray, who takes advantage of his leadership', "If you find something else, give it to me, okay?". The hierarchy also places Stanley at the bottom, thus a target to be bullied by everyone above him, for example Armpit's physical bullying in chapter five. ... Sachar's use of short, yet condensed, chapters ensures students will find the book a very fast, but also informative read, making it very difficult to put the book down, and therefore creating a very addictive read. However, the short chapters, do ...

• Word Count: 1943
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Stanley, and the others, are allowing themselves naively to be bullied by X ray, who takes advantage of his leadership', "If you find something else, give it to me, okay?". The hierarchy also places Stanley at the bottom, thus a target to be bullied by everyone above him, for example Armpit's physical bullying in chapter five. ... Sachar's use of short, yet condensed, chapters ensures students will find the book a very fast, but also informative read, making it very difficult to put the book down, and therefore creating a very addictive read. However, the short chapters, do ...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

That is why the new aesthetic reality, which is giving birth in epic dialogue to the novelistic hero, - is not mutual relation and not symbiosis, but epiko-novelistic quality, endowing with epic weightiness the historically passing novelistic event and problematizing epic integrity. ... Historical consciousness is the consciousness giving the report in the historical nature. ... Since these "instants" before the reader's eyes, at his interested partnership as he is involved and willingly gives himself to involve in discussion of variants of developme...

• Word Count: 2592
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

All values and judgements are those of Nick's which helps to maintain simplicity and give the novel its cohesiveness. ... In chapter two and three, the storyline moves from the Buchanans refined dinner party to the revelry and glitter of Gatsby's festivities. ...

• Word Count: 756
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I think that this is an interesting point because the first chapter of the novel was entirely dedicated to the physical burdens and metaphorical weights that soldiers carried as they trekked through Vietnam, and now the end of the story relates back to that in explaining the reason why O'Brien needs to write stories the way that he does. ... O'Brien adds new details to give people that died in his stories new life that he could experience as he was creating it, almost as if the person that had died was alive and making new memories with him right at that very moment. ...

• Word Count: 685
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Through the use of a "disabled" narrator, the author Mark Haddon creates intrigue and gives us rare insight into another, even alien like world! ... An interesting and distinctive point of the structure is the development of chapter length from short to long as the book progresses. ...

• Word Count: 1041
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Chapter nineteen includes Forster's attempt to firmly unite the Schlegel and Wilcox families; Margaret Schlegel, having accepted Henry Wilcox's marriage proposal, has enlightened her sister Helen to the news. ... The image is striking; within the diction we see that England is attributed a female persona, and therefore we can determine that the nation is fertile, and ready to give birth to new possibilities. ...

• Word Count: 1625
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate