He also had a very soft, hypnotic voice and whenever he smiled his teeth were very shiny and pointy. ... In the movie the actor who filed his role was a very big man with a powerful voice. The last character, Jabez Stone, wasn't given a very active role in the short story, but he was described as " an unlucky man...he had a good wife and children, but the more he had the less there was to feed them." ...
"Kincaid sat at the typewriter in her Hudson Street apartment and attempted to recreate her mother's voice in its first fictionalized incarnation" (Paravisini-Gebert 51). ... The story also uses the mother's voice as way to deliver instructions to her daughter in a nagging manner. ... Her mother was obviously worried that she was going to become sexually active because she stresses purity in the story. ...
The narrator, an unnamed townsperson, is presented as the voice of the town. ... The town of Jefferson is more than simply the setting; it is a character with a voice and values. And this town, understood as setting, character, and narrative voice, controls "A Rose for Emily" from opening through closing sentence. ... Up to the day of her death at seventy-four it was still that vigorous iron-gray, like the hair of an active man.? ...
Introduction In this world of plurality and polivocality, it has become a challenge for both educators and learners to negotiate their voices and opinions on a number of things the way that they should move forward and hence give the pedagogy a go, keeping the tunnel open for any sort of heightened understanding between parties concerned. ... Voices are as many as the students in the class in terms of differences in their likes and dislikes, and opinions about a number of things being culturally bound and oriented. ... It is my belief that the way to achieve this is by giving students a voice ...
When the audience is able to draw it's own story around an author's narrative, the experience is more satisfying than when every detail is presented through the cinematic medium - an active audience is happier than a passive one. ... After Fossie waited many days for Mary Anne, he is convinced that he heard Mary Anne's voice coming from the Greenies" post. ...
Before the safari and the lion, Macomber seems like he is a very active brave man, but breaks down in the face of danger. ... When he is ready to kill the last bull in the bushes it gets ready to charge him and Margot shoots, readers might think this act was done out of self defense for her husband, but really she was so scared that he would leave her that she killed him instead, "That was a pretty thing to do," [Wilson] said in a toneless voice. ...
Lion (1987) is a novel which takes place in Toronto in the years following the First World War. Ondaatje's next novel, 1992's The English Patient, won the Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize, and was made into an award-winning film. In The Skin Of A Lion is a love story and an irresistible mystery set in the turbulent, muscular new world of Toronto in the ' 20s and ' 30s. Michael Ondaatje entwines adventure, romance and history, real and invented, enmeshing us in the lives of the immigrants who built the city and those who dreamed it into being: the politic...
1. "Fat" : a short story? According to van Gorp , a short story is a single-episode narrative with a limited number of characters. The descriptions of the setting and the character's evolutions are restricted. The writer focuses his attention on one character in an everyday situation, which implies...
The first publication of the short story "Cathedral" was in the March, 1981, issue of Atlantic Monthly. It was selected to appear in "The Best American Short Stories, 1982," and became the title story in the 1983 collection, Cathedral. This volume was very well-received by critics and readers alike, receiving nominations for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Many critics note a shift in Carver's work between the publication of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love and Cathedral, and many believe that Carver reached the zenith of his career with this co...
