English 104 - Introduction to Narrative
Emily Hubbard
Addie and Susie: death on earth and heaven
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Emily Hubbard
In both novels, Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones and William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying the two main characters experience a feeling of isolation. It is Susie, however, that responds with more emotion and concern than Addie. It seems that Susie’s isolation would be less understandable than Addie’s because...
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Posted by ehubbard on December 09, 2003 at 02:00 AM
Susie & Sex-what is she thinking?
Category: 10 Blog: The Lovely Bones | Emily Hubbard
Susie, oddly enough, seems to get her most excited moments-moments where she feels alive- through incindences that involve sex. Particularly, Susie enjoys moments when her sister, Lindsay, and Samuel are kissing. When she sees Samuel and lindsay kissing at one point she says, “Unchaperoned,and with the heat of the...
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Posted by ehubbard on December 03, 2003 at 10:27 PM
Addie does not see dying as the end
Category: 09 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Emily Hubbard
It is both interesting and appropriate that Addie’s monologue follows the monologues’ of all the people that are in her life. Addie’s family is in disarray and their apparent selfishness and disillusionment mirrors Addie’s own personality. Before Addie’s monolgue, there are constant references to her unhappiness by other characters;...
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Posted by ehubbard on November 24, 2003 at 11:10 PM
Darl is not like his father
Category: 08 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Emily Hubbard
A character that is conversely described by two characters is Darl. The first description of Darl is a positive one which claims Darl “is different from those (the family) others. He was the only one of them that had his mother’s nature, had any natural affection,” (p. 21). Here, Darl...
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Posted by ehubbard on November 17, 2003 at 10:33 PM
"Revelations" Are Just Another revealing of Tom's Character
Category: 07 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Emily Hubbard
The end of Huck Finn does not really provide revelations, but outcomes that seem forthcoming. Even though the reader is unaware that Jim is free, this is not a huge surprise because Jim is often left in the dark when it comes to fraudulent schemes. Although it is Tom...
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Posted by ehubbard on November 10, 2003 at 11:37 PM
Huck just wants to be happy
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Emily Hubbard
Huck has learned his tolerance for lousy men from his father. Because Huck never had a real family it seems that all he wants in his relationships with other people is harmony. Therefore, when the liars come and perpetuate themselves as the Duke and the Dauphin Huck does not...
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Posted by ehubbard on November 03, 2003 at 10:47 PM
Jim is a man of integrity
Category: 05 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Emily Hubbard
Throughout Huckleberry Finn Jim is portrayed as a savage and worthless being. When Huck is believed to be dead, the people “thinks he [Jim] has killed the boy [Huck] and fixed things so folks would think a robber done it” (p. 73). One man calls Jim “the meanest, treacherousest,...
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Posted by ehubbard on October 28, 2003 at 12:17 AM
“The Presence of Ghosts Through the Eyes of a Cast and a Solo”
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Emily Hubbard
It may seem throughout Wuthering Heights that Nelly is a more credible narrator than the governess but Nelly’s trustworthiness is greatly abetted by the presence of other characters’ dialect and supporting narrators. In both of the novels Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights...
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Posted by ehubbard on October 22, 2003 at 11:00 PM
The narrator shows that Alice is truly in wonder in "wonderland"
Category: 04 Blog: Alice in Wonderland | Emily Hubbard
The narrator in Alice in Wonderland has a double role, acting as an omniscient narrator and a mere spectator who takes joy in commenting on the character’s actions, particularly the actions of Alice. The narrator makes it clear that Alice enjoys the sound of her own voice. When Alice...
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Posted by ehubbard on October 06, 2003 at 08:53 PM
Little Cathy is a growth of her mother’s character
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Emily Hubbard
Little Catherine shows obvious traits of her mother but she displays more depth as a person. She begins as somewhat of a mirror image of her mother- being very whiny and disrespectful. Particularly when it comes to Nelly, little Cathy can be very demanding. She once said to Nelly,...
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Posted by emichel on September 29, 2003 at 09:22 PM
Nelly shows signs of envy as a narrator
Category: 02 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Emily Hubbard
Nelly’s narration often shows biases, which could be attributed to her personal feelings towards the characters. Nelly seems resentful and somewhat jealous of her counterparts, which could explain her critical attitude. The person that Nelly seems to be most harsh to is Catherine, because Nelly has always been inferior...
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Posted by ehubbard on September 22, 2003 at 08:55 PM
Misunderstood situations
Category: 01 Blog: Turn of the Screw | Emily Hubbard
The governess often misconstrues situations in order to make herself seem more essential to the plot. Her worries are over things that she cannot control, but she engulfs herself in the problem anyway. When Miles is dismissed from school, the governess says that Miles has the right to say, “Either...
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Posted by ehubbard on September 14, 2003 at 07:20 PM
Practice blog
Category: Emily Hubbard
It was all very well to join them, but speaking to them proved quite as ever an effort beyond my strength-offered in close quarters, difficulties as insurmountable as before. This situation continued a month, and with new aggravations and particular nots, the note above all, sharper and sharper, of the...
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Posted by ehubbard on September 10, 2003 at 03:23 PM