English 104 - Introduction to Narrative
Kelsey Hughes
Distorting Effects of Desire
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Kelsey Hughes
Character’s desires twist the narration in both As I Lay Dying and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Anse’s utter selfishness warps the novel as he places priority to his wealth and wooden teeth rather than his dead wife and his grieving family. Huck’s desires stem from his dislike towards structure and...
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Posted by khughes2 on December 09, 2003 at 01:11 AM
Susie's Guilt
Category: 10 Blog: The Lovely Bones | Kelsey Hughes
Susie loops us through the past and the present in a way where she herself is trying to find meaning and understanding. Her desires appear extremely clear as she jumps back in time to when she found her mother on the porch, and she explains, “’Ocean Eyes,’ my father caller...
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Posted by khughes2 on December 04, 2003 at 01:16 AM
Understanding Sin
Category: 09 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Kelsey Hughes
Addie's monologue is in a peculiar but interesting place. It is positioned in between the monologues of the two characters that are said to be the most religious, when Addie appears in some ways to care the least about religion. The most intriguing part is that although Cora and Whitfield...
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Posted by khughes2 on November 25, 2003 at 03:09 AM
Perception of the Brothers
Category: 08 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Kelsey Hughes
In As I Lay Dying, the different narrators give very various accounts of both Darl and Jewel. Cora and Darl portray Jewel as the favorite son who doesn’t deserve this title because of his lack of concern for Addie. Cora sees Darl as the perfect son: “Except Darl. It was...
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Posted by khughes2 on November 18, 2003 at 01:07 AM
Tom's Need for Adventure
Category: 07 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Kelsey Hughes
Huck first realizes that he’s “got to decide, forever, betwixt two things,” which were either writing a note explaining where Jim was, or hiding and stealing Jim back, but he then decided that he would “take up wickedness again” and “go to work and steal Jim out of slavery again”...
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Posted by khughes2 on November 11, 2003 at 12:25 AM
Huck's Similarities
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Kelsey Hughes
Huck has always identified with robbers or con-men, since he in one way considers himself one. He constantly strives to be an adventurer like Tom Sawyer, and can associate with many criminals they come in contact with. He also, in some ways, seems to look for these adventures. Often times,...
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Posted by khughes2 on November 04, 2003 at 01:42 AM
Huck's False Heroism
Category: 05 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Kelsey Hughes
Huck Finn’s sense of heroism is far from what he perceives. He’s living in his dream world filled with the excitement of running away, and the idea of this band of criminals with Tom Sawyer. He comes upon the ship wreck and then finds what could be a murder happening....
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Posted by khughes2 on October 28, 2003 at 12:33 AM
Narrations Altered by Social Differences
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Kelsey Hughes
In both Wuthering Heights and The Turn of the Screw, the narrator’s image of events is skewed. The social gaps between characters in each novel contribute to the biased image seen by the narrators. The two narrators, Nelly and the governess, deal with social injustices and classes in different...
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Posted by khughes2 on October 22, 2003 at 09:22 PM
Alice's Skewed Narration
Category: 04 Blog: Alice in Wonderland | Kelsey Hughes
In Alice in Wonderland there is a third person narration which involves the thoughts of Alice, but no thoughts of anyone else. This means that everything told is told through what Alice sees, what Alice experiences, and what she perceives things as. This, like the other two stories we have...
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Posted by khughes2 on October 06, 2003 at 11:51 PM
Heathcliff's True Nature
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Kelsey Hughes
In Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, Isabella acts as a young lady that means well, but unfortunately involves herself with Heathcliff. At the beginning of this novel, the reader believes that Heathcliff is a charming, sweet, but poor boy that loses the love of his life due to his lack of both...
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Posted by khughes2 on September 29, 2003 at 10:56 PM
The Least Biased Character
Category: 02 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Kelsey Hughes
While reading Wuthering Heights, a novel in which there is a main character telling the story, it is necessary to decide the motives and views of this narrator. Nelly Dean, in my opinion, is the least likely character to be biased in the telling of this story. Other readers might...
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Posted by khughes2 on September 23, 2003 at 01:31 AM
The Governess' Opposite Views
Category: 01 Blog: Turn of the Screw | Kelsey Hughes
The governess had always intensely felt that she needed to shield and guard Flora from the ghosts and threats around her. “I was there to defend and protect these little creatures… we were united in our danger” (39). She had always seen Flora as an innocent, perfect child up to...
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Posted by khughes2 on September 16, 2003 at 12:53 AM
Practice
Category: Kelsey Hughes
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Posted by khughes2 on September 11, 2003 at 12:04 AM