English 104 - Introduction to Narrative
Drew Fulton
Maturing through Unseen Observation
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Drew Fulton
Mark Twain and Alice Sebold both utilize similar narrative styles, the first person participatory narrator. Twain’s narrator, Huck Finn in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, tells the story of his adventures as he traveled down the Mississippi River. Sebold adds a slight twist to her narrator, Susie Salmon, when she...
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Posted by afulton on December 09, 2003 at 06:47 AM
Mr. Harvey as a Man?
Category: 10 Blog: The Lovely Bones | Drew Fulton
Susie’s narration takes you into the mind of many of the characters in the novel. One of the most disturbing yet also most human characters in the novel is Susie’s murderer, Mr. Harvey. Susie enters into his mind and reads his thoughts on a number of occasions and the more...
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Posted by afulton on December 03, 2003 at 07:53 PM
Darl as Vardaman
Category: 09 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Drew Fulton
In Darl’s final narrative of the story we see a very different Darl then in other sections. Throughout the story Darl has been the only character that has been able to go outside his own body and see a situation from another characters point of view. In this section Darl...
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Posted by afulton on November 24, 2003 at 06:41 PM
Horse or Fish
Category: 08 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Drew Fulton
Twice in the novel Addie is described as an animal. The first occurrence is a chapter from Vardaman’s point of view that is only five words, “my mother is a fish” (84). This simple statement tells a lot about his character. Vardaman is Addie’s youngest son and struggles with understanding...
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Posted by afulton on November 17, 2003 at 09:37 PM
Huck's Respect for Tom
Category: 07 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Drew Fulton
With the exposition of Jim’s freedom Huck immediately understands Tom’s willingness to help out in the attempt to set Jim free. Huck is so shocked that he felt “like [he] was shot” and he admits that at that moment “Tom Sawyer fell, considerable, in [my] estimation” (235). Huck believes that...
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Posted by afulton on November 11, 2003 at 09:23 AM
Was Huck Right or Wrong?
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Drew Fulton
Huck allows the Duke and King to stay on the raft because he thinks that these two frauds have been relatively harmless up until this point in the story. The only thing that they have done to Huck and Jim is to fake royal lineage to gain superior treatment while...
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Posted by afulton on November 04, 2003 at 09:20 AM
Huck's Affinity to Pap
Category: 05 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Drew Fulton
Huck’s ties to his father and his respect for this man are somewhat startling. As they spend time in the cabin in the woods we get to see the man that Huck calls Pap. After two months Huck says “and it warn’t long after that till I was used to...
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Posted by afulton on October 28, 2003 at 09:00 AM
The Physical Frames of Henry James and Emily Bronte
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Drew Fulton
Masters of narrative, Henry James and Emily Bronte take full advantage of the technique of the frame story in their novels, The Turn of the Screw and Wuthering Heights. While each novel begins with the traditional frame story structure, each author extends the concept of framing characters to a more...
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Posted by afulton on October 23, 2003 at 09:25 AM
Alice can't get past her own problems....
Category: 04 Blog: Alice in Wonderland | Drew Fulton
Alice’s lack of ability to understand the drastic changes in her height completely blocks her logic and her ability to communicate with the creatures around her. Alice’s encounter with the hookah smoking caterpillar is a prime example of Alice’s lack of ability to communicate clearly with the animals as well...
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Posted by afulton on October 07, 2003 at 09:42 AM
Heathcliff gets his revenge
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Drew Fulton
To Heathcliff, Little Catherine Linton serves as a replacement of her mother, whom was never able to marry and always loved. When Catherine Earnshaw married Edgar Linton, Heathcliff’s life was destroyed and he disappeared for many years. Shortly after his return, his childhood friend and love, Catherine, died in childbirth,...
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Posted by afulton on September 30, 2003 at 02:42 AM
Lockwood's Dream
Category: 02 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Drew Fulton
After Lockwood’s nightmare and Heathcliff’s entrance into the room, Lockwood witnesses a strange scene where Heathcliff begins muttering and sobbing, begging for Cathy to come back to him. The juxtaposition of the terror that the ghost had just caused Lockwood in the dream with the great desire that Heathcliff has...
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Posted by afulton on September 23, 2003 at 06:53 AM
Did Flora Really See Miss Jessel?
Category: 01 Blog: Turn of the Screw | Drew Fulton
In The Turn of the Screw, Henry James leaves the reader feeling skeptical about the integrity of the narrator, the governess, who says “I scarce know how to put my story into words that shall be a credible picture of my state of mind.” (p39) Due to this, we...
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Posted by afulton on September 15, 2003 at 11:46 PM
Testing
Category: Drew Fulton
Testing this out. Drew...
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Posted by afulton on September 09, 2003 at 12:27 PM