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...

• Word Count: 2626
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 3072
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 3767
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 2590
• Approx Pages: 10