English 104 - Introduction to Narrative
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Telling it how it Really is:
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Europa Yang
Europa Yang 12/5/03 Telling it how it Really is: When wishful thinking causes narrators to misperceive other key characters In storytelling, the greatest fallibility of the narrator is the tendency to allow personal biases to taint perception. By doing so, the narrator provides the audience with a more subjective and...
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Posted by eyang on December 09, 2003 at 10:36 AM
Mom & Dad
Category: 10 Blog: The Lovely Bones | Europa Yang
The way Susie’s narration circles between the past and the present is an indicator of how she is dealing with understanding the changes taking place in a world from which she has been completely excluded. Intently observing from heaven, Susie especially notices how her parents’ marriage has deteriorated over time...
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Posted by eyang on December 04, 2003 at 09:32 AM
Darl's Struggle
Category: 09 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Europa Yang
Darl’s last monologue reinforces his struggle with defining his feelings and expressing his own character, a problem that is exacerbated by his forced departure from the family. Previous chapters show that Darl is eerily good at describing other characters in the Bundren family. He can even observe their most minute...
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Posted by eyang on November 25, 2003 at 09:59 AM
Jewel and Addie
Category: 08 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Europa Yang
Cora Tull and Darl express very different interpretations of which son each believes is most dedicated to Addie and connects most deeply with her. Both characters agree that Jewel is the son she favors. Darl first describes this relationship by saying “ma always whipped and petted (Jewel) more…That’s why she...
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Posted by eyang on November 18, 2003 at 10:02 AM
Fellow Scamming Experts
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Europa Yang
Huck is not as taken aback as Jim is by the Duke/King duo, which he calls “the beatenest lot, them two frauds, that I ever struck (175)”. Unlike Jim, Huck does not look down upon them but instead makes allowances for their behavior because he accepts that while one can...
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Posted by eyang on November 04, 2003 at 10:00 AM
Social Gaps & Hidden Agendas:
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Europa Yang
In both Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, the main narrator is a female whose inferior class status leaves her with no choice but to partake as a servant and to assume full responsibility of sustaining her household. There is a common...
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Posted by eyang on October 28, 2003 at 10:08 AM
Size affects Communication
Category: 04 Blog: Alice in Wonderland | Europa Yang
The scene at White Rabbit’s house demonstrates frustrated communication between Alice and these strange animals. The first misunderstanding occurs when Rabbit “took (Alice) for his housemaid (p27),” causing her to comply with his “angry” demands out of fear. The next problem stems from Alice’s enormous size, which literally blocks Rabbit...
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Posted by eyang on October 07, 2003 at 03:24 AM
A New Catherine
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Europa Yang
Little Catherine is indeed an extension of her mother’s personality and shares the similar dominating traits of displaying disobedience towards authority and household rules, an adventurous spirit and “a warm heart (p.187)”, yet being rudely outspoken and impatient at times. Each one hungers for affection, love, and attention and consequently...
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Posted by eyang on September 30, 2003 at 09:57 AM
Tragic Love
Category: 02 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Europa Yang
Lockwood's nightmare serves to evoke a sense of intense tragedy defining the love shared by Catherine and Heathcliff, a key theme that is then elaborated upon as the story unfolds. It sets up the framing of how there is a mystery buried within the surface of Lockwood's story. The dream...
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Posted by eyang on September 23, 2003 at 09:56 AM
Miles' Expelling
Category: 01 Blog: Turn of the Screw | Europa Yang
Early on, the governess has a misunderstanding over the “deep obscurity,” as she calls it, of Miles’ expelling from school. She is befuddled by the discrepancy between the condemning letter from the headmaster and both her and Mrs Grose’s high opinions of Miles. Swayed by her emotions and eager optimism,...
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Posted by eyang on September 21, 2003 at 03:32 PM
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Posted by eyang on September 15, 2003 at 03:51 PM