The difference between a narrative and an essay is that an essay can merely state and argue facts from one person's viewpoint. A narrative, on the other hand, can incorporate many characters' perspectives on a given topic, and thus can aid in molding the readers thoughts and feelings con...

The complexity of the narrative voice in Tim Winton's Cloudstreet adds to the intrigue of this unusual novel. The omniscient narrative voice by Fish Lamb, along with other aspects of the narrative structure contribute to the understanding of the text. It in turn gives the reader insight into the c...

The title Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner takes its reference from a theological belief, particularly the central reformation doctrine of "justification by faith". It concerns a strangely tormented character, Robert Wringhim, who believes he is one of the elect, but ...

Fallen Hero Traditional American feature films share the common characteristics of classical Hollywood cinema. In fictional films the main character is often portrayed as the hero that saves the day. However, the movie, Fallen contradicts this conventional way of cinema. The main character i...

Miss Brill In Katherine Mansfield "miss Brill", characterisation, irony, and point of view is used to tell the story of a woman, and involves us in some way in what seems to be her daily routine on a Sunday, this all due to the fact that the story is told in the third p...

Two sequences that are intergal to an apppreciation of Scott Hick's Oscar nominated film 'Shine', are the opeining scences and the sequence of scenes, which gives the audience insight into the events of that led to the protagonist's mental breakdown. In both scenes the director has used compelling ...

Elizabeth Jolley's The Well is an excellent representation of the author's ability to create and sustain suspense resulting in a degree of perplexity that suits the investigative genre of the text. Jolley's manipulation of the narrative and of the perspectives serves both to challenge and to intrigu...

Heart of Darkness-"Conrad in the Congo-Background and Sources"The walls between insanity and sanity are often paper thin in ones own mind. Joseph Conrad's novel, "Heart of Darkness," exemplifies this wall, or realm, through the manipulation of his character's narration. Initially, the narrative sim...

Contemporary American Fiction In Cold Blood Beloved These days when a reader settles in to read a book, it is hard to know what to expect. In the past, there may have been a more rigid idea about what makes a novel or a story, now, there are many ways in which a modern writer can choose to...

A common struggle teenagers experience is loss of identity – they do not know if they are funny or if they are smart and they see eye to eye with how their peers perceive them. Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta is an engaging narrative. It focuses on the troubles a young teenager struggle...

Many people think that boys in our culture today are brought up to define their identities through heroic individualism and competition, particularly through separation from home, friends, and family in an outdoors world of work and doing. Girls, on the other hand, are brought up to define their id...

\"The Fabulous Fable Factory\" by Joseph Robinette is a work children\'s theater. An individual unfamiliar with this genre of theater might simply assume a work of children\'s theater to be a dumbed-down version of adult theater. This might be particularly the case in terms of \"The Fabulous Fable...

Mary Reilly In comparing the novel of Mary Reilly to the motion picture I noticed a few differences in the two such as the slightly changed narrative. In the first scene of the novel, to begin with, we are introduced immediately to Mary's childhood horror from her point of view. This give...

Does the Voice Matter? How important is the voice that tells a story? It seems almost trivial to claim that the same story can change because of the voice telling it to you. Does the voice and point of view of the narrator play a large enough role in a novel to change the attitude of the ...

Bartleby the Scrivener, by Herman Melville is a narrative that takes place on Wall Street. Bartleby has the characteristics of an autistic person. In the story Bartleby is the protagonist; he was an individualist of the most extreme type who eventually suffers a death of attrition. The narrator of t...

Jared BadenhopEnglish 202October 3, 2000"Excess Baggage"FORM"The Things They Carried," written by author Tim O'Brien, is the fictionalized realistic war story telling of the baggage and necessity created by and in war. The story is told through the third person narrative, utilizing either Tim himse...

"Let me now re-emphasise the extreme looseness of the structure of all objects" How Ondaatje makes use of "loosness" in the novel. In "In The Skin Of A Lion" by Michael Ondaatje, "the extreme looseness of the structure of all objects" is carried into the themes, characte...

"Let me now re-emphasise the extreme looseness of the structure of all objects" How Ondaatje makes use of "loosness" in the novel. In "In The Skin Of A Lion" by Michael Ondaatje, "the extreme looseness of the structure of all objects" is carried into the themes, characters and into the nature of the...

Generally, it is believed that in order for an author to write a successful text, they need to effectively engage their audience and maintain their interest throughout by incorporating aspects they know will prove appealing and entertaining. However, the more experienced reader should have develope...

Although mostly remembered for his earlier work, The Cement Garden, McEwan\'s more recent work of fiction, A Child In Time, offers a very different perspective into the theme of childhood - this time an adult\'s understanding of a juvenile world. The novel has been highly critically acclaimed since ...

The Sweet Hereafter Novel compared to the Movie 'The Sweet Hereafter' is a gripping tale of a small U.S town and the people who dwell in it. A saga of four vivid, sensitive souls linked in a school bus tragedy: the bus driver, the widowed Vietnam Veteran, the lawyer who tries to shape ...

For a long time now folktales have been one of children's favourite forms of literature. They are able to enhance a child's learning and psychological well being. When reading a folktale you are able to get a sense of the structure and many of their characteristics quite easily. Duri...

Humankind's Relationship to the Past The central narrative of My Antonia is a look into the past, and though in his narration Jim rarely says anything directly about the idea of the past, the overall tone of the novel is highly nostalgic. Jim's motive for writing his story is to try to ...

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush, by Virginia Hamilton, was first published in 1982. The estimated reading level for this book is twelve years old and up. Some of the issues examined in the book, such as child abuse, disease, and drug use, will be better understood by junior high age students. This nov...

Dead Souls by Nickolai Gogol, was released March 25, 1997. This novel was first published in 1842. Dead Souls is many things. Not only is it a fictional novel of Russian life but an epic, a series of charachter portrayals of the various good and bad members of Russian society. The main characters i...