For instance, during a chapter Lazaro stops telling story due to the fact that the audience may got bored: "but I don't want to go on and on so I will miss out a lot of things-(p33). ... To give example for statements: At the very beginning of the book, he asks that "how many people must there be in the world who run away from others in fright because they can't see themselves?"... In another occasion, he cannot realize the relationship between his mother and black man in first chapter. ... For instance, he may not mention that he prayed for every single day for his priest master to ...

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He may inference that Douglas has altered the original manuscript "in old faded ink and in the most beautiful hand", or that the narrator in "the Prologue" is not telling the truth when explaining: "let me say here distinctly, to have done with it, that this narrative, from an exact transcript of my own made much later, is what I shall presently give". ... On the one hand, Douglas adds verisimilitude by giving more details about the characters and, on the other hand, he subverts the perception: "it appeared that the narrative he had promised to read us really required for a proper intelligence...

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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

Possibly the fact that Dickens does not give the signalman a name shows that he is deemed unimportant to most people. ... Dickens' writing flows throughout the story, whereas Hardy chooses to use headed chapters. ... In 'The Withered Arm' it is clear that the plot is spread out through a number of years and often in-between chapters a large amount of time has passed. This is shown at the beginning of chapter 6 as it reads, "Half a dozen years passed away - This allows Hardy to create a more elaborate story line and use several characters. ... Although this is very realistic, thi...

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• Grade Level: High School

The plot of this novel is summed up in the first two chapters, and is all about this one family and the events that happen to it. ... Compson's purpose as narrator is to give the reader another view of the story that was already told, or in a sense to give the reader another historical look at the same event. ... Compson gives the reader another view of this man, so as to question what one is being told. ... Faulkner here is again using another narrator to give another slightly different account or twist to the previously unraveled story. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Concerning this issue he declared I quote "In a little less than four years, therefore, after becoming a public lecturer, I was induced to write out the leading facts connected with my experience in slavery, giving the names of persons, places, and dates, thus putting it in the power of any who doubted, to ascertain the truth or falsehood of my story." In addition, the narrative was also divided into twelve chapters, which lucidly relate Douglass' experiences as a slave through the beginnings of his career as an abolitionist. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Plot in both novels is carefully constructed to give added emphasis to the theme. ... Starting with an analysis of character one must first give it a literary definition. ... The novelist gives the reader direction on how to receive the character. ... Half chapters describing useless events, and pointless sea stories are digressions which do nothing to further develop the plot; on closer examination they only distract the reader from the true course of the story. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In this essay I will be explaining how the three standard forms of literary discourse, which we have studied in our class apply to the narration of The Death of Ivan Ilych, and allow for the transitioning between the dialogues of characters. This essay will cover excerpts of discourse from pages 39 ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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