English 104 - Introduction to Narrative
Jason Lewis
What’s My Age Again?
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Jason Lewis
Maturation is a prominent theme in both Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. In these unique coming of age novels, the art of narration plays an integral role. Both Huck and Alice, the young protagonists of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Alice in Wonderland...
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Posted by jlewis2 on December 08, 2003 at 08:50 PM
Peeping Susie
Category: 10 Blog: The Lovely Bones | Jason Lewis
“I had been kissed once by someone I like” (13). When George Harvey committed the heinous act of rape and murder, he not only robbed Susie Salmon of her innocence and her life, he also deprived a fourteen-year-old of a lifetime of experiences, including sexual ones. Susie’s inexperience as a...
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Posted by jlewis2 on December 02, 2003 at 10:26 PM
Darl’s Last Stand
Category: 09 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Jason Lewis
As Darl is being dragged away to Jackson, his degeneration from a character with much thoughtful insight into the thoughts and emotions of others into an illogical, ranting lunatic has ensued. Although Darl still possesses the ability to displace himself into other situations, noting that as he lays in his...
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Posted by jlewis2 on November 24, 2003 at 11:43 AM
Two Brothers – Two Distinct Observations
Category: 08 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Jason Lewis
The reader is provided insight into the lowering of Addie’s coffin from her bedroom down to the wagon through the eyes of both Cash and Darl. At a time when the boys should show the utmost respect for their deceased mother, the brothers give two unique interpretations of the event....
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Posted by jlewis2 on November 17, 2003 at 12:18 PM
Oh Tom – The Ultimate Fraud
Category: 07 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Jason Lewis
“Turn him loose! he ain’t no slave, he’s as free as any cretur that walks this earth!” (291). As Tom Sawyer utters these words to his aunt Sally, he mistakenly acknowledges his ultimate act of fraudulence. Tom is well aware of the fact that Jim is a free man when...
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Posted by jlewis2 on November 10, 2003 at 03:25 PM
Let ‘Em Pretend
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Jason Lewis
Huck is a boisterous youth who enjoys and admires the ability to deceive and scam for personal gain. Although he immediately realizes that the Duke and the King “warn’t no kings nor dukes, at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds,” (142) Huck makes an “allowance” for them because he...
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Posted by jlewis2 on November 03, 2003 at 03:35 PM
What Would Tom do?
Category: 05 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Jason Lewis
“I was just a-biling with curiosity; and I says to myself, Tom Sawyer wouldn’t back out now, and so I won’t either; I’m agoing to see what’s going on here” (77). Tom Sawyer is put on a pedestal by both Huck and the other young boys, representing the courageous and...
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Posted by jlewis2 on October 27, 2003 at 03:25 PM
Repetitive Repetitions
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Jason Lewis
Henry James and Emily Brontë, authors of The Turn of the Screw and Wuthering Heights respectively, use a variety of narrative techniques throughout the course of their novels, which continuously add to the various themes of their respective stories. One of the more interesting techniques of The Turn of...
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Posted by jlewis2 on October 22, 2003 at 07:48 PM
Insight into Alice
Category: 04 Blog: Alice in Wonderland | Jason Lewis
From the onset of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland it is evident that the means of narration is accomplished via a third-person, limited omniscient chronicler. The narrator has unlimited access to the thoughts and feelings of only one character, Alice. The reader is provided with plentiful information regarding the feelings...
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Posted by jlewis2 on October 06, 2003 at 03:11 PM
One in the Same
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Jason Lewis
The young Cathy, who bears a striking character resemblance to her mother, seems to continue the presence of the departed Earnshaw rather than serve as a mere replacement for her namesake. From the onset, Cathy serves as a target of Heathcliff’s persistent goal to avenge Catherine’s betrayal. Heathcliff openly displays...
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Posted by jlewis2 on September 28, 2003 at 08:08 PM
“Seventy Times Seven”: Thou Shalt Forgive
Category: 02 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Jason Lewis
When questioned about forgiveness, Jesus replied “I will not say unto thee, Until seven times seven: but, Until seven times seventy.” (Matthew 18.21-35 (Bronte, 19)) Christ claimed that man should forgive his fellow brethren an infinite number of times. In his dream, Mr. Lockwood encounters the famous Jabes Branderham...
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Posted by jlewis2 on September 22, 2003 at 07:55 PM
The Mistaken Identity
Category: 01 Blog: Turn of the Screw | Jason Lewis
The governess in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw is prone to misreading various situations. One such occasion which was particularly interesting was when she returned to Bly after abandoning the children and Mrs. Grose at church to find a young woman seated at her desk. The governess took...
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Posted by jlewis2 on September 14, 2003 at 08:41 PM
Practice Blog
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Posted by jlewis2 on September 09, 2003 at 10:53 PM