This essay seeks to discover how Atkinson uses the past, footnotes, setting and her post modernist style as a technique in the treatment of time. The narrative is a common first person narrative, but at the same time, it is very unusual. ... This technique gives Ruby a more "knowing" voice that can see ahead of us but is still unable to share with us the withdrawn knowledge that she is trying to find out herself. ... Atkinson uses footnotes as another technique. ... In Behind the scenes at the museum, Atkinson is able to skilfully and originally bring her all her characters to life using...

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Employs a multiple narrator technique, it uses the varying voices and points of view of a number of characters to examine the life and character of Thomas Sutpen, a tragic figure who tries and fails to build a family dynasty in Yoknapatawpha County. ... The main story pieced together from the various narratives is interesting. ... The narrative structure throughout each chapter jumps back and forth between internal and external, back and forth between different characters' thoughts. Faulkner's use of narrative in Absalom, Absalom! ... is said to contain the most orig...

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Vladimir Nabokov´s Pale Fire, first published in 1989 is considered to be one of the first Post-modern novels in the English speaking world, primarily because of its narrative structure; the novel is written as a poem with 999-lines by the fictitious writer John Shade. ... Consequently, Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire shows how an author can use new techniques and approaches to create a literary masterpiece, without a specific audience in mind. ... I believe that Nabokov´s narrative conveys certain personalities who may lack both self- insight and self-irony and makes the reader aware ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Moses understands that the reader is constantly overwhelmed by the emotionally effecting content - Pecola's incestuous rape, ensuing pregnancy, and abandonment by her community - that we often miss the music in the lyrically "songified" narrative. Our cultural knowledge and values that are central to the blues form the thematic and rhetorical understanding of The Bluest Eye, as the narrative's structure appears to follow a pattern common to traditional blues lyrics. ... Moses allows us to understand his perception that Claudia's role as a storyteller is supported by th...

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The conventions that are used, such as narrative conventions, characterisation and settings have been used in surprising ways by the author and the director. Both the film and novel employ techniques in an unusual way to engage the reader/viewer and portray the theme of redemption. ... Not only does Tsotsi neatly resolve its narrative with a redemptive conclusion that portrays a more hopeful humanity than would probably be the case in historical reality, it also adopts a genre that could become a vogue for representations of black South African experience, namely a black gangster genre....

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Throughout the piece Hopkins uses first person narrative to switch the point of view back and forth between Kristina and Bree. ... In this novel Hopkins again uses first person narrative and switches perspective between the twin characters, Kaeleigh and Raeanne. ... Along with the literary techniques utilized by Hopkins, she also sparks intrigue through her unique placement of words on the page. ... Through her many literary techniques, Ellen Hopkins has created a new genre of writing. ...

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In the classic novel "Lord of the Flies" the author William Golding, shows a compelling variety of narrative techniques. ... A number of literacy techniques are used, such as Symbolism (the conch, piggy's specs, the fire, etc.), Setting (based on a deserted island during the time of the war) and Characters (the teenage boys themselves). ...

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Through the use of techniques such as characterisation, language and imagery, Monk examines the personal experience of institutions. ... The author uses the 3rd person narrative but tells the story from Brett's perspective as he arrives at The Farm. ... Conclusion Monk uses a range of techniques to explore the responses individuals can experience when exposed to the influence of institutional power. ...

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From the outset, subjective camera techniques inscribe the viewer as complicitious company with a shared horizon of understanding so that eventually the audience has become so complicitous that words are superfluous - Orlando's knowing gaze in the audience's direction suffices to punctuate key moments of the diegesis with shared irony. ... Potter claimed that these alterations were necessary "to strengthen some of the narrative muscle for cinematic purposes- to supply little bits of motivation for the story's premise, to make it psychologically convincing on film." ... Compl...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The film Clueless deals primarily with the protagonist's (Cher's) thoughts through the filmic technique of voice over and with her experiences through dialogue. ... Vast passages of descriptive language detailing the thoughts and emotions of each character are not necessary in Clueless, as filmic and acting techniques allow these features to be conveyed through as little as a single camera shot, music or facial expression of an actor. ... Clueless uses filmic technique to compress these large paragraphs into merely seconds of footage of a set or an actor. ... Through camera techniq...

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Kafka's and Hemingway's works are similar in that they both stray from the grander narrative. Analyzing different aspects of each narrative reveals information supporting the hidden meanings. ... Hemingway's short story, "Hills Like White Elephants," is a narrative "in which little actually 'happens'" to the protagonists, which means that almost all of the substance emerges from the vague dialogue between the man and the girl, Jig (Link 3). ... Iceberg theory is a technique which leaves out "vital data of the story underneath the belief that o...

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In the novel The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender written by Marele Day, distinctive voices are created through the creation of voices depicted through various literary techniques. ... Marele Day has used a range of literary techniques including first person narration and phrases to successfully create an interchange of unique characters. ... Day's narrative includes social commentary about Sydney and its society. ... Gillard uses techniques such as rhetorical questions to display the power and authoritative voice she has over the opposition, this is shown in the quote "now who...

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He used this technique to dramatize the complexity of life and the difficulty of arriving at truth. " Reality and life weave together in one of Faulkner's many novels, As I Lay Dying. "William Faulkner's outrageous story of the Bundren family is undoubtedly one of his most complex and enigmatic novels; complex because beneath the surface narrative of a grotesque journey, we are terrifying depths of human significance; enigmatic, because we never seem to be certain in what sense the novels control our responses," states Jan Bakker. ... Faulkner's technique enables us to watch...

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Seeking and Maintaining Balance: Rohinton Mistry's Fiction. (Critical Essay) Abstract: Balance is an important quality in the fiction of Rohinton Mistry, as suggested by the title of his second novel, 'A Fine Balance.' Mistry was born in India, a member of the Parsi community, and immigrated to Canada in 1975. Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. The Parsis and India become metap...

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Seeking and Maintaining Balance: Rohinton Mistry's Fiction. (Critical Essay) Abstract: Balance is an important quality in the fiction of Rohinton Mistry, as suggested by the title of his second novel, 'A Fine Balance.' Mistry was born in India, a member of the Parsi community, and immigrated to Canada in 1975. Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. The Parsis and India become me...

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That being said, the narrative of literature has changed drastically from the 18th Century to the 19th/20th centuries. ... Therefore, there are circumstances when a writer's personal experience can influence the story told in their novel, with changing the narrative and characters to transform a personal experiences into a realistic fictional story. ... Flaubert's technique of cinematographic description was amplified through the form in his novels in alternating the point of view in the narrative throughout his work. ...

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Voltaire uses colorful yet clear sentences to describe the characters, actions and feelings through a third-person narrative. The enjoyment found from reading this novel is proof that certain writing techniques will always be effective and this is certainly true of Voltaire's work. ...

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"Her acute observation of character and her satiric depiction of human behaviour are distinguishing features of Jane Austen's writing." Discuss, with close attention to characterization, style and themes. Jane Austen narrates Pride and Prejudice for the most part from the point of view of her h...

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More and more authors are beginning to use their works to try to deliver their takes on a narrative, as told by an individual challenged with autism or a similar condition. ... A myriad of authors are utilizing different techniques to "[open] our eyes to the autistic world view in its strangeness and richness" (Bates). ...

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We see many events through the eyes of Oedipa even though the novel is technically a third-person omniscient narrative. ... The narrative is consistent, the plot moves along rapidly, and the point of view remains stable. ...

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In magical realism you find the transformation of the common, into the awesome and the unreal as a part of everyday reality. According to Literature and Its Time, the term was first used by the German art critic Franz Roh in 1925, it described a manner of painting that "was not a mixture of reality and fantasy but a way to uncover the mystery hidden in ordinary objects". In Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel uses magical realism to combine reality and surreality onto the same plane making it seem as if the unreal happens as a part of everyday life. Laura Esquivel was born in 1951 in...

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Forster's techniques in this novel allow the reader to stay fully engaged and ask many questions before reaching the end of the novel. The narrative technique of psychonarration helps the reader understand how Mr. ...

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The author uses light as a technique to show the effect each of the main female characters have on their environment. ... Whereas the other characters in the narrative remain rather opaque, we are allowed access to all of Ethan Frome's thoughts as his life approaches a crisis point. ...

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