English 104 - Introduction to Narrative
Kendall Brown
unrequited love
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Kendall Brown
Kendall Brown 12/6/03 ENG 104 Unrequited Love In both William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones the power of parental love is explored. In each case the unrequited love of the parent is not returned by the child; the one-sided nature of this love does...
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Posted by kbrown2 on December 09, 2003 at 09:42 AM
exorcism
Category: 10 Blog: The Lovely Bones | Kendall Brown
Much as a rape can affect the subsequent life of a living person, Susie’s sexual assault shapes the way that she views the lives of the people that she left behind on earth. As a fourteen year old girl, the extent of Susie’s sexual experience was the innocent kiss that...
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Posted by kbrown2 on December 03, 2003 at 11:51 PM
Truth from beyond the grave
Category: 09 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Kendall Brown
The placement of Addie’s one and only monologue is important because it comes right after Cora gives the reader insight into the way that Addie really was as a mother. Instead of portraying fondly, as one usually would for someone who passed away, Cora gives the reader real information about...
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Posted by kbrown2 on November 25, 2003 at 09:05 AM
Deception
Category: 07 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Kendall Brown
Throughout the Huck’s river adventure he assumes a leadership role in his interactions with Jim and people that meets on shore. With the arrival of the Duke and the King, Huck’s imagination and cunning is somewhat overshadowed by the professional quality of the Duke and King’s cons, however, he never...
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Posted by kbrown2 on November 10, 2003 at 08:25 PM
"Liars? I'm over it"-Huck
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Kendall Brown
From the moment that Huck joined Tom Sawyer’s band of robbers the reader has been made aware of Huck’s love of adventure. His fake death and his willingness to join Jim on a raft ride to freedom also back this up. While Huck and Jim’s trip has not been uneventful,...
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Posted by kbrown2 on November 03, 2003 at 11:36 PM
King of wishful thinking
Category: 05 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Kendall Brown
As a young boy who is prone to fits of the imagination, Huck tends to create fantasies, which involve the people who are closest to him. Because of his unstable childhood, he craves the comfort of living with one person whom he can call his family. While Pap’s background in...
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Posted by kbrown2 on November 03, 2003 at 11:15 PM
Social Consciousness
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Kendall Brown
Kendall Brown 10/11/03 ENG 104 Henry James’ Turn of the Screw and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights both deal with the issue of social class; this theme becomes a thread woven through both novels and is constantly informs the narrative framework of each. The specific way that the narrators view the...
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Posted by kbrown2 on October 23, 2003 at 09:28 AM
Anonymous...
Category: 04 Blog: Alice in Wonderland | Kendall Brown
Alice In Wonderland is an interesting narration because the reader has no background on the narrator. As Alice plunges down the rabbit hole, the narrator keeps the reader informed about Alice’s state of mind while also being sympathetic to her constantly changing state if mind. As a seven-year-old girl...
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Posted by kbrown2 on October 07, 2003 at 09:08 AM
Your mom...
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Kendall Brown
In the later part of the novel, Cathy both continues and improves upon the memory of her mother. As the elder Catherine fades towards the end of the novel, a new Catherine is forming within her; a being that will both delight and aggravate those who love her most. Although...
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Posted by kbrown2 on September 30, 2003 at 01:24 AM
Dreamweaver...
Category: 02 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Kendall Brown
Lockwood’s dream in chapter three serves as foreshadowing for the volatile pairing of Catherine and Heathcliff; one where pride complicates a mutually obsessive relationship. Growing up, the two formed a bond that was demonstrated to Lockwood through the contents of Catherine’s diaries that reminisced about the hours that they spent...
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Posted by kbrown2 on September 22, 2003 at 11:03 PM
Mirror Image
Category: 01 Blog: Turn of the Screw | Kendall Brown
Kendall Brown 9/15/03 As a narrative story, the Turn of the Screw is framed by the central character, the governess whose subconscious additions and subtractions form the opinions of the reader. The story is told with an almost egotistical self-confidence which seems to refute the notion that the events are...
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Posted by kbrown2 on September 15, 2003 at 09:01 PM