English 104 - Introduction to Narrative
Jin-Sun Kim
family ties
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Jin-Sun Kim
Jin-Sun Kim December 6, 2003 Intro to Narrative Phillipson Family Ties By having one prominent narrator in The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold reaffirms the unity and closeness of the Salmon family, which stunts their ease to moving on from Susie’s death, while in As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner’s choice...
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Posted by jkim3 on December 09, 2003 at 12:37 AM
sexual healing
Category: 10 Blog: The Lovely Bones | Jin-Sun Kim
Considering Susie's fate and the fact that she was killed by rape, she seems to be extremely interested in others’ sexual activities. From heaven, she can see almost everything, but only talks about certain things. She closely follows her sister, Lindsey’s relationship with her boyfriend, Sam. Susie remembers the first...
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Posted by jkim3 on December 04, 2003 at 03:01 AM
isnt it ironic?
Category: 09 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Jin-Sun Kim
Addie's monologue reveals a lot about the novel. Faulkner carefully placed her chapter in between Cora and Whitfield, two characters who have interesting feelings about Addie. Cora, the hypocritical neighbor, shows how she disapproves of Addie's relationship with the preacher. Whitfield, the father of her bastard son, is the reason...
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Posted by jkim3 on November 25, 2003 at 05:27 AM
unspoken secrets
Category: 08 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Jin-Sun Kim
Dewey Dell is pregnant with Lafe’s baby, and no on knows except her brother, Darl. Earlier in the novel, they both recount the conversation they had when Darl “confronts” Dewey Dell with his discovery. When Dewey Dell recalls it, she remembers Darl being quite speechless and not many words had...
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Posted by jkim3 on November 17, 2003 at 08:39 PM
Huck's own Freedom
Category: 07 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Jin-Sun Kim
One of the more obvious frauds that are exposed is that Jim is a runaway slave. Throughout the entire novel, Huck shows genuine companionship towards Jim but has problems admitting to himself that he really cares for Jim and views him as a human, and not a slave. The townspeople...
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Posted by jkim3 on November 10, 2003 at 10:09 PM
just like me
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Jin-Sun Kim
The Duke and the Dauphin are completely untrustworthy, yet, Huck allows them to stay on his raft and travel with them. “Jim pitied him ever so much, and so did I. We tried to comfort him, but he said it warn’t much use, he couldn’t be much comforted” (140). Huck...
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Posted by jkim3 on November 03, 2003 at 11:04 PM
ladies, ladies, ladies
Category: 05 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Jin-Sun Kim
Huck encounters one of the few girls in the novel when he meets and stays with the Grangerford family. Huck meets the two daughters of Colonel Grangerford and is extremely taken by them. Charlotte and Sofia are both much older than he, but Huck describes them as if they were...
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Posted by jkim3 on October 27, 2003 at 08:15 PM
the class factor
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Jin-Sun Kim
Jin-Sun Kim October 21, 2003 Into To Narrative Mark Phillipson The Class Factor In Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw and in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, different narrators from the norm are used to tell the story. In both these novels, the narrators are at a lower social status...
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Posted by jkim3 on October 23, 2003 at 08:50 AM
in her head
Category: 04 Blog: Alice in Wonderland | Jin-Sun Kim
Alice in Wonderland is in the third person narrative. The narrator knows everything that’s going on and can tell us about all the characters. However, he is more focused on the perspective of Alice. Her feelings sometimes come out in the narration. The reader knows how she feels and the...
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Posted by jkim3 on October 06, 2003 at 08:34 PM
like mother, like daughter
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Jin-Sun Kim
Young Catherine continues the presence of her mother because her actions and ways resemble those of her mother’s. Young Catherine leads a life parallel to that of her mother. They both love a man, but that love is forbidden. In addition, they both marry men who they do not love....
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Posted by jkim3 on September 30, 2003 at 03:15 AM
No Trespassing
Category: 02 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Jin-Sun Kim
In chapter 3, Lockwood experiences a nightmare, which alludes to the romance of Heathcliff and Catherine. In this dream, he meets young Catherine as a ghost who struggles to be let into Wuthering Heights. However, Lockwood prevents her from entering the house by fighting her. This relates to the forbidden...
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Posted by jkim3 on September 23, 2003 at 08:18 AM
Disillusioned
Category: 01 Blog: Turn of the Screw | Jin-Sun Kim
“But it was a comfort that there could be no uneasiness in a connection with anything so beatific as the radiant image of my little girl, the vision of whose angelic beauty had probably more than anything else to do with the restlessness…” (12). In the beginning of the novel,...
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Posted by jkim3 on September 15, 2003 at 11:52 PM
01 practice
Category: Jin-Sun Kim
"Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The...
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Posted by jkim3 on September 11, 2003 at 12:24 AM