English 104 - Introduction to Narrative
Alex Krippner
Death: Through the Eyes of a Child (Surprising Similarities Through Analysis of Differences)
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Alex Krippner
People of all ages experience the impact of death, though they deal with it in various ways. The degree of personal involvement with death is an important factor as well, but often it is age that is most significant in determining one’s ability to cope with such a tragedy. Life...
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Posted by kkrippne on December 09, 2003 at 08:03 AM
Re-Turns
Category: 10 Blog: The Lovely Bones | Alex Krippner
Primarily, the circles in time that Susie’s narration seems to form seem to suggest the fact that being dead, she herself is no longer able to move forward in time. She can watch others move forward (and it is usually those whom she is watching that she reminisces about), but...
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Posted by kkrippne on December 04, 2003 at 03:10 AM
sin and words
Category: 09 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Alex Krippner
The placement of Addie’s single monologue is significant in that it is inserted between the monologues of the two characters most involved with what she speaks of. In Addie’s speech we see the contrast of truth and sin, and there is a religious thread running throughout. We begin in the...
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Posted by kkrippne on November 24, 2003 at 11:22 PM
Darl
Category: 08 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Alex Krippner
There is an acknowledgeable difference in the way the character if Darl is described by various other characters. This discrepancy is most clearly recognizable in the narrations of Tull and Dewey Dell. While both seem to identify an extra-perceptive quality that Darl possesses (one of the reasons he could possibly...
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Posted by kkrippne on November 18, 2003 at 01:44 AM
Fraudulence and Fathers
Category: 07 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Alex Krippner
The most significant revelation at the end of Huck Finn is Jim’s disclosure to Huck the fate of Pap. It is not until the end of the novel, the last line of character dialogue, that Jim admits, as Huck wonders about the return of Pap, that Pap “ain’t comin’ back...
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Posted by kkrippne on November 11, 2003 at 03:16 AM
Parallels, Familiarity, Company, and Learning
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Alex Krippner
Despite Jim’s and Huck’s dislike for the likes of characters such as the duke and the king, Huck allows them to remain on the raft with them. Although Huck acknowledges that these men are “low-down humbugs and frauds,” he does not pass judgment or attempt to rid the raft of...
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Posted by kkrippne on November 04, 2003 at 02:23 AM
Pap and Disparity
Category: 05 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Alex Krippner
A dichotomy exists between the father character of “pap” Huck relates to us and the type of father we can deduce Huck actually possesses. Despite the abusive way in which Huck’s father treat’s him, Huck never actually verbally abuses him to his audience, and is often ready to appease him....
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Posted by kkrippne on October 28, 2003 at 08:11 AM
Spirit Skepticism
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Alex Krippner
Novelists Henry James and Emily Bronte have both created worlds in which spirits roam. In their respective novels The Turn of the Screw and Wuthering Heights, these authors create settings, situations, characters, and most importantly, narrators that lead the reader to question the reality of the apparitions. James and...
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Posted by kkrippne on October 23, 2003 at 03:00 AM
Narration of Alice
Category: 04 Blog: Alice in Wonderland | Alex Krippner
The narrator of Alice in Wonderland helps the reader to understand not only the events concerning Alice, but her thoughts and opinions regarding these events as well. This third person narration explores the novel and shapes the views of the reader, specifically from Alice’s point of view. In this way,...
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Posted by kkrippne on October 07, 2003 at 12:39 AM
Irreplaceable, Continuous Catherine
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Alex Krippner
Little Catherine does not replace the presence of her mother—the elder Catherine was too great a presence in the hearts of all who loved her for even her daughter to fill the position she left when she died. Both Heathcliff and Linton view the young Catherine as quite a separate...
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Posted by kkrippne on September 30, 2003 at 12:17 AM
Lockwood's Dream
Category: 02 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Alex Krippner
The emotionally violent interactions between Catherine and Heathcliff in Chapter 16 relate back to the occurrences pertaining to Lockwood’s dream in Chapter 3. The story of Catherine and Heathcliff's young lives as told by the housekeeper are framed between the dream and the events it foreshadows. Perhaps the framing attempts...
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Posted by kkrippne on September 23, 2003 at 04:07 AM
Framing in Thresholds and Windows
Category: 01 Blog: Turn of the Screw | Alex Krippner
In Chapter 10 the governess is almost physically framed by the passageway between the children’s bedrooms and her own, as well as in the threshold of Miles’ doorway. The fact that she is standing in the doorway both listening at and watching the children’s doors clearly illustrates her suspicions regarding...
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Posted by kkrippne on September 15, 2003 at 11:26 PM
Blog Practice
Category: Alex Krippner
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Posted by kkrippne on September 15, 2003 at 12:33 AM