English 104 - Introduction to Narrative
Eric Davich
The Power of the Narrator in Alice in Wonderland and
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Eric Davich
The novels Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain are written with the intention of presenting relationships between children and adults in which one generation has a distinct power over the other. Both novels follow the main character, (Alice or Huck), through...
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Posted by edavich on December 09, 2003 at 09:37 AM
Inspiration from Death
Category: 10 Blog: The Lovely Bones | Eric Davich
Although Susie is dead, her mind-state in heaven is still of a high-school aged girl. She is still concerned with high-school social life and social status and wants to live that experience. When Susie “leaves earth” after her death, the last person she touches is a girl named Ruth....
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Posted by edavich on December 02, 2003 at 09:42 PM
How Ironic
Category: 09 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Eric Davich
Throughout the story, Darl analyzes all the other characters besides himself. His final monologue is the first time that the reader experiences Darl looking at himself (even though he refers to himself in the third person). When the Bundren family first leaves home to go to Jefferson was the first...
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Posted by edavich on November 24, 2003 at 11:14 PM
Jewel vs. Cash
Category: 08 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Eric Davich
Jewel and Cash seem to be competing for the favor of their mother. Jewel criticizes cash for making a coffin where their mother could see it because it implied that he “want[s] to see her in it” (p. 14). Jewel continues to talk about Cash as if he were slow...
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Posted by edavich on November 18, 2003 at 03:28 AM
The Mystery of Huckleberry Finn
Category: 07 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Eric Davich
At the end of Huckleberry Finn, Huck’s narrative leaves out some important details to the end of his story. We find out that Jim has been free and that he has been treated like a slave on multiple occasions even though he has been free. But how can he be...
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Posted by edavich on November 11, 2003 at 02:39 AM
Go with the Flow
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Eric Davich
When Huck first meets the Duke and the King, they introduce themselves by their “trade” rather than as their title. The Duke says he’s a “Jour printer… do a little in patent medicines; theatre-actor…” (p. 139), and the list goes on. The King also has a long list of trades...
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Posted by edavich on November 04, 2003 at 02:50 AM
Huck's Reality vs. Tom's Imagination
Category: 05 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Eric Davich
Huck looks up to his friend Tom Sawyer and wants to embark on adventures with him and his band of robbers. What Huck does not realize is that Tom Sawyer’s adventure stories are all taken from “pirate books and robber books” (p. 21). For the first adventure of Tom Sawyer’s...
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Posted by edavich on October 27, 2003 at 09:32 PM
Ghost Stories: The Turn of the Screw and Wuthering Heights
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Eric Davich
Both The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James and Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë; have scenes involving ghosts of the dead. These ghosts in each novel affect the narrator differently. In The Turn of the Screw, the reader questions whether or not the ghosts actually exists or if they...
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Posted by edavich on October 23, 2003 at 03:14 AM
More than One Communication Blocker
Category: 04 Blog: Alice in Wonderland | Eric Davich
Both Alice and the Caterpillar make it difficult to communicate with each other when they first meet. In this scene, Alice is disoriented and tries to explain to the Caterpillar that for her, “being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing” (35). The Caterpillar, although he does...
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Posted by edavich on October 06, 2003 at 09:04 PM
The Catherine Trait
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Eric Davich
Both Catherines claim to fall in love with men who they do not seem to have legitimate affection for. In addition to multiple other ridiculous reasons to love Edgar Linton, Catherine Earnshaw says she loves him, “because, he loves me” (61). Although this statement might seem like a legitimate reason...
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Posted by edavich on September 30, 2003 at 12:19 AM
"Procrastinated Opportunity for Retribution"
Category: 02 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Eric Davich
Lockwood’s dream includes a very pertinent quote said by the “famous preacher, Jabes Branderham.” The mention is implying the sin “First of the Seventy-First” (19). As the footnote on the bottom of the page explains, the passage refers to “relishing his [Branderham’s] procrastinated opportunity for retribution” (19). This is easily...
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Posted by edavich on September 23, 2003 at 02:17 AM
The Affection of the Governess
Category: 01 Blog: Turn of the Screw | Eric Davich
The governess physically “frames” herself to be in love with the master. She is so fixated on the idea of meeting him again that she imagines encountering him “He did stand there!” (pg. 23) while taking an afternoon stroll when in fact she encounters another man. The governess will soon...
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Posted by edavich on September 16, 2003 at 01:57 AM
practice blog
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“I love you honey oh yes I do you know that’s true of course and if your cat or dog ever dies then I’ll buy you a ewe.”- phish (for some reason my name doesn't come up on the "assign multiple categories" screen)...
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Posted by edavich on September 09, 2003 at 01:26 PM