English 104 - Introduction to Narrative
Jade Dunn
Fear and Loathing – Contrasting the narration of horrifying events in The Lovely Bones and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Jade Dunn
Terror, devastation, and agony are three elements of life that most people pray to avoid and openly fear. Despite this desire to evade tragedy, the reactions and the methods of coping that are drawn out by these horrifying events can sometimes reveal secrets of one’s character that have remained previously...
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Posted by jdunn2 on December 09, 2003 at 12:42 AM
Susie's Intentions for "Violating" the Privacy of Thoughts
Category: 10 Blog: The Lovely Bones | Jade Dunn
Take deep breaths and hold them. Try to stay still for longer and longer periods of time. Make yourself small and like a stone. Curl the edges of yourself up and fold them under where no one can see. (29) Although Susie Salmon suffers a gruesome death, her discharge from...
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Posted by jdunn2 on December 02, 2003 at 02:13 PM
The "Sandwiching" of Addie's Narration
Category: 09 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Jade Dunn
First, Addie's solitary monologue appears to serve as a "rebuttal" to the narration before it - Cora's narration. Condemning Addie for her pride and vanity, Cora claims that Addie can’t be helped - "Not even after Brother Whitfield, a godly man if ever one breathed God's breath, prayed for...
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Posted by jdunn2 on November 24, 2003 at 08:35 PM
Defending Their Innocence
Category: 08 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Jade Dunn
There is one section in the beginning pages of As I lay Dying where two different characters narrate the same section of the plot. Young Vardaman (pgs. 53-57) describes his experience of blaming Peabody for his mother’s death, running out to the barn to set Peabody’s horses loose, and...
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Posted by jdunn2 on November 15, 2003 at 07:00 PM
A Moral Gift with an Immoral Twist
Category: 07 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Jade Dunn
Amidst the final pages of Huckleberry Finn, we become enlightened by several revelations – the boldest one being the fact that Jim, upon the death of Miss Watson, had been a free man during the entirety of the adventure. However, within this one limelight, there are many other discoveries...
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Posted by jdunn2 on November 09, 2003 at 04:44 AM
Pap and the Pirate
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Jade Dunn
“…he was going to start right off and work his way back to the Indian Ocean and put in the rest of his life trying to turn the pirates into the true path…” (148) This line is from one of the first scams played out by the Dauphin –...
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Posted by jdunn2 on November 03, 2003 at 08:48 PM
The "Moral" Truth or the "Moral" Stretcher
Category: 05 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Jade Dunn
Throughout the rafting adventures of Huck and Jim, Huck frequently makes the choice to tell a “stretcher” – a lie. Although many of his lies are told in order to keep himself from being sent back to his “civilized” life with the widow, many of them are also told...
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Posted by jdunn2 on October 27, 2003 at 10:06 PM
A Gothic Blanket and a Gothic Fog
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Jade Dunn
The presence of ghosts is not a rarity within gothic narratives of the Victorian era. As a pair, both The Turn of the Screw and Wuthering Heights meet the generalized, literary standards of gothic narration; however, these gothic distinctions serve drastically different purposes in each novel. Henry James has...
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Posted by jdunn2 on October 22, 2003 at 09:14 PM
"Which was very likely true..."
Category: 04 Blog: Alice in Wonderland | Jade Dunn
An obvious 3rd person narration work from the beginning, Alice in Wonderland, provides the reader with a narrative style that is both omniscient (having access and understanding of only the character Alice) and almost mocking. While at first appearing to share her private thoughts and convey her actions in a...
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Posted by jdunn2 on October 07, 2003 at 01:16 AM
Our "True" Devotion
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Jade Dunn
When I remove myself, and my own feelings from the passions of this story, it appears to me that each one of us should feel an overpowering PITY for the character Isabella, but I guarantee you, we never will. In comparison to the empathy and the torture that we are...
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Posted by jdunn2 on September 29, 2003 at 11:26 PM
A Character & A Storyteller
Category: 02 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Jade Dunn
From our first youthful experience with the childhood game of Telephone, we all became quickly aware of the fact that every time words pass through a different mind and come out through a different mouth, they are targets for change. Whether the cause be a bad memory, impaired hearing,...
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Posted by jdunn2 on September 22, 2003 at 10:06 PM
"Who Knows?"
Category: 01 Blog: Turn of the Screw | Jade Dunn
In one, integral moment – amidst a final whirlwind of the ongoing “narrative power” exchange - the letter is missing and young Miles is the accused perpetrator. Although the accusation holds water, the governess’s assumption of what the crime actually proves, does not. She hastily presumes that it was...
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Posted by jdunn2 on September 14, 2003 at 09:41 PM
Name Check
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MY NAME IS JADE, NOT JANE :O)...
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Posted by jdunn2 on September 09, 2003 at 12:06 PM