English 104 - Introduction to Narrative
Julie Calareso
The Horror! vs. Ho, Hum...the Horror:
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Julie Calareso
Julie Calareso 11/28/03 Introduction to Narrative- Essay 2 The Horror! vs. Ho, Hum…the Horror: Both Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland and Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones, introduce their novels with opening scenes of horror and fright: young girls lured into deep, dark places by someone or...
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Posted by jcalares on December 09, 2003 at 08:39 AM
Susie--the Onlooker, the Vilolater, the Obsessed
Category: 10 Blog: The Lovely Bones | Julie Calareso
Susie’s fate shapes her narration in the sense that she narrates the story with a special ability: the ability to see into the lives of all characters in the novel; she is able to see all of their actions and hear all of their words, even those actions and words...
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Posted by jcalares on December 04, 2003 at 01:46 AM
"Sin, Schmin"
Category: 09 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Julie Calareso
The placement of Addie’s one and only monologue between the monologues of the two most religious characters in the book is quite interesting. Cora, in her monologue, comes off to Addie and to the reader as very preachy, telling Addie that she must open her heart to the Lord and...
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Posted by jcalares on November 25, 2003 at 03:43 AM
The Talks About the Box
Category: 08 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Julie Calareso
Throughout As I Lay Dying, Addie’s coffin is discussed in great detail, and even when it is not being specifically referred to, the sawing and hammering noises are noted as being in the background. For example, “I go on to the house, followed by the Chuck. Chuck. Chuck. Of the...
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Posted by jcalares on November 18, 2003 at 02:14 AM
To Trust or Not to Trust?
Category: 07 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Julie Calareso
Although the scam concerning Jim’s known freedom is a large scam in the novel, the surprise that affects Huck more directly and personally is the fact that Jim knew all throughout the adventure that Pap was dead. “He ain’t a comin’ back no mo’, Huck.” (295). The true motivation for...
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Posted by jcalares on November 11, 2003 at 03:11 AM
What's the Big Deal?
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Julie Calareso
Huck makes allowances for “low-down humbugs and frauds” on his raft for different reasons. Huck understands that the Duke and King behave the way they do, because of the manner in which they were raised and he accepts them for it. He declares, “Take them all around, they’re a mighty...
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Posted by jcalares on November 04, 2003 at 03:13 AM
Death...What's the big deal?
Category: 05 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Julie Calareso
“I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die.” (16). In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck’s world is filled to the brim with images and...
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Posted by jcalares on October 28, 2003 at 09:34 AM
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Julie Calareso
Julie Calareso 10/13/03 Introduction to Narrative The Turn of the Screw vs. Wuthering Heights. Boo! “I muttered, knocking my knuckles through the glass, and stretching an arm out to seize the importunate branch: instead of which, my fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice-cold hand!” (Bronte 20). In...
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Posted by jcalares on October 23, 2003 at 09:27 AM
Really Big Shoes
Category: 04 Blog: Alice in Wonderland | Julie Calareso
Communication is severely frustrating during the chapter IV scene, in which Alice has entered the Rabbit’s house, drank the enlarging potion and gotten stuck in the small abode. The communication is frustrating on two levels: it is frustrating between characters and reader, and it is frustrating between the actual characters...
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Posted by jcalares on October 07, 2003 at 01:48 AM
Catherine Continues
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Julie Calareso
Young Catherine is more of a continuation than a replacement of her mother, Catherine. Many striking similarities and parallels exist between the two Catherine's lives. For instance, the late Catherine married into the Linton Family, and young Catherine is not only marrying into that family, but her love's name is...
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Posted by jcalares on September 30, 2003 at 08:43 AM
Lockwood's Dream
Category: 02 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Julie Calareso
Lockwood’s dream in chapter three has a great deal to do with Heathcliff and Catherine’s love story. After Catherine has died in labor in chapter sixteen, Heathcliff yearns to be haunted by the spirit of his love, and begs Catherine’s soul to relentlessly do so, in any manner. “Catherine Earnshaw,...
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Posted by jcalares on September 23, 2003 at 02:03 AM
Misread Situation
Category: 01 Blog: Turn of the Screw | Julie Calareso
“They’re talking of them - they’re talking horrors!” This exclamation, uttered in sheer paranoia by the governess, is just one of many instances in Turn of the Screw where the governess overreacts and misreads both characters and situations. One afternoon, the governess observes Flora and Miles reading to each...
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Posted by jcalares on September 15, 2003 at 11:59 PM
Julie's Practice Blog
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Here is Julie’s trial blog entry. I hope it works. Good luck to everyone trying to post!...
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Posted by jcalares on September 10, 2003 at 10:55 AM