English 104 - Introduction to Narrative
Ged Wieschhoff
Self-Isolation From Adolescence
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Ged Wieschhoff
In both Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the narrators are excluded from the playful youth community (the children who enjoy pretending, acting older than their age, seeking mischief, and having adventures). Both narrators choose to exclude themselves from the imaginative youth of their...
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Posted by gwieschh on December 09, 2003 at 01:08 AM
Susie’s Sense of Responsibility for her Own Death
Category: 10 Blog: The Lovely Bones | Ged Wieschhoff
In the beginning of The Lovely Bones, Susie consistently interjects her past dialogue with Mr. Harvey to reveal her present feelings of responsibility for her murder and disappointment at her naiveté. Susie first states, “’Don’t let me startle you,’ Mr. Harvey said...After I was dead I thought about how there...
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Posted by gwieschh on December 04, 2003 at 09:18 AM
Darl Proves His Own Insanity
Category: 09 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Ged Wieschhoff
Darl’s final monologue is proof (from Darl himself) that he has actually gone "crazy.” Faulkner chooses to have Darl narrate his final monolog in the third person to prove Darl’s insanity. Early on Faulkner establishes an archetype for “crazy” characters with the creation of Vardaman, and he uses Cash to...
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Posted by gwieschh on November 23, 2003 at 06:57 PM
Differing Reactions to Addie’s Death
Category: 08 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Ged Wieschhoff
Faulkner allows his reader to become more understanding of his characters by having different characters narrate their (and others’) responses to Addie’s death. Peabody’s reaction to Addie’s death (narrated by Peabody) is one of the first reactions the reader encounters. Peabody narrates, “I believed death to be a phenomenon...
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Posted by gwieschh on November 17, 2003 at 09:07 PM
Huck and Jim; A Friendship?
Category: 07 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Ged Wieschhoff
The most surprising revelation at the end of Huck Finn is that Jim knew much earlier in the novel that Huck’s father was dead and decided not tell Huck the news until he knew that he was a free man. It is angering to discover Jim’s knowledge so late...
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Posted by gwieschh on November 10, 2003 at 04:39 PM
Huck’s Admiration of Transformation
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Ged Wieschhoff
Huck makes “allowances” for the king and the duke because he is amazed by men’s abilities to change their identity effortlessly and successfully. Though Huck realizes “that these liars warn’t no kings nor dukes, at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds,” (p. 142) he allows the con men to...
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Posted by gwieschh on November 02, 2003 at 02:20 PM
Huck’s Misunderstanding of Jim’s Hair-Ball
Category: 05 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Ged Wieschhoff
Jim’s hair-ball seems to Huck to be a supernatural being whose knowledge will prepare Huck for his future. In reality, Jim’s hair-ball is nothing more than a gimmick that Jim uses to earn himself petty cash. Jim uses a well choreographed ceremony, dropping the hair-ball on the floor twice and...
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Posted by gwieschh on October 26, 2003 at 10:08 PM
Silences Can Provide More, Silences Can Provide Less
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Ged Wieschhoff
An entertaining novel does not answer all of its readers’ questions. If it did, its readers would only be passive observers of the story, not participants. Literary audiences enjoy being challenged and forced to think. Emily Bronte and Henry James, both aware of the power of silences within a...
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Posted by gwieschh on October 23, 2003 at 12:30 AM
Alice's World
Category: 04 Blog: Alice in Wonderland | Ged Wieschhoff
It is clear, right from the beginning of the novel, that the narrator is a first person observer. The narrator is removed from the story she relays but has the ability to show the reader Alice’s thoughts and emotions. There are many characters that Alice encounters through out the...
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Posted by gwieschh on October 05, 2003 at 07:16 PM
Isabella’s POV Supports Nelly’s Narration
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Ged Wieschhoff
Isabella’s point of view in the story is used to defend the veracity of the narration. Bronte schematically switches to Isabella’s point of view in chapter 13 as a means to denounce any doubts that the reader may have about the truthfulness of Nelly’s story. All along Nelly has...
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Posted by gwieschh on September 29, 2003 at 11:19 PM
Bias Narrator?
Category: 02 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Ged Wieschhoff
So far, Nelly seems to be a truthful and informing narrator. Nelly has given us, the reader, very few reasons to question the veracity of her story; however, it seems virtually impossible for a narrator as involved in their story as Nelly is, to be able to recount the events...
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Posted by gwieschh on September 22, 2003 at 10:49 PM
A Misunderstanding Emotional Governess
Category: 01 Blog: Turn of the Screw | Ged Wieschhoff
As we have seen and discussed many times, the governess allows her emotions to dominate her thoughts and actions. At the beginning of chapter fifteen, the governess shares with us her anxiety resulting from Miles’ dismissal from school. She no longer wishes to be bothered by Miles’ questions, nor...
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Posted by gwieschh on September 15, 2003 at 06:36 PM
Practice Blog 2
Category: Ged Wieschhoff
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Posted by gwieschh on September 09, 2003 at 08:33 PM
My practice post
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Posted by gwieschh on September 09, 2003 at 11:22 AM