English 104 - Introduction to Narrative
Matthew Roy
Movin' on Out
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Matthew Roy
In both Mark Twain’s "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and Alice Sebold’s "The Lovely Bones", the narrators are somehow excluded from a specific community at some point during the novels. Whether from life on land to a life on a river, or from life on earth to life in heaven,...
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Posted by mroy on December 09, 2003 at 09:26 AM
Lowering the Sails: Death of a Talent
Category: 10 Blog: The Lovely Bones | Matthew Roy
In a conscious attempt to start moving forward with their lives after Susie’s death, the family decided to perform chores. Her father was assigned the “task of cleaning the upstairs guest room, which long ago had become his den” (p. 45). The den is where he had made and kept...
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Posted by mroy on December 04, 2003 at 02:08 AM
Prayer Is Not The Answer
Category: 09 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Matthew Roy
The fact that Addie’s monologue is preceded by the entry of Cora, one of the most pious, yet superficial people in the novel, makes her entry particularly interesting. In Cora’s monologue she criticizes Addie because “she had never been pure religious, not even after…Brother Whitfield wrestled with her spirit, singled...
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Posted by mroy on November 25, 2003 at 12:32 AM
Mother/Daughter Tilt
Category: 08 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Matthew Roy
When it comes to certain events, things, or people in "As I Lay Dying," the characters evince several differences in opinion. Nevertheless, the first scene in which the reader clearly sees two distinct opinions comes when Cora describes how she had saved eggs to bake cakes that she was hired...
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Posted by mroy on November 17, 2003 at 09:45 PM
Fradulence Leads to Freedom
Category: 07 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Matthew Roy
Although it could be said that there are several revelations that are made at the end of Huckleberry Finn, the most prevalent and shocking idea reveals the surprising fraudulence of Jim. This idea of fraudulence is evinced by the fact that Jim admits to having previous knowledge of Tom’s father’s...
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Posted by mroy on November 11, 2003 at 02:08 AM
Playing Along
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Matthew Roy
Huck makes “allowances” for the two men even though he knows they are “low-down humbugs and frauds” (p. 142) due to the suggestion that he finds them entertaining and interesting. He feels this way because they can change the identity of their characters smoothly, and Huck can genuinely relate...
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Posted by mroy on November 03, 2003 at 11:49 PM
No Stock in Dead People
Category: 05 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Matthew Roy
In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the topic of death is ubiquitous. In the beginning, the widow Douglas falls short in teaching Huck about Moses because she happens to mentions “that Moses had been dead a considerable time,” and Huck “don’t take no stock in dead people”...
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Posted by mroy on October 28, 2003 at 02:13 AM
Ghostly Purpose
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Matthew Roy
In both Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, the appearance of ghosts and spirits is ever-present throughout the novels. However, Bronte and James present these scenes to the reader in such a way that the existence of the ghosts remains ambiguous and the...
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Posted by mroy on October 23, 2003 at 03:13 AM
"Who in the world am I?"
Category: 04 Blog: Alice in Wonderland | Matthew Roy
In Lewis Carroll’s classic novel, Alice in Wonderland, we are immediately introduced to our young narrator named Alice. We are presented with this story though her first person point of view. This view shows honest and first hand accounts of Alice’s thoughts and emotions. Ironically, as the reader amerces themselves...
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Posted by mroy on October 06, 2003 at 10:36 PM
Like Mother, Like Daughter
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Matthew Roy
Little Cathy has clearly taken the place of her mother by carrying out the strong, compassionate character role. Seeing these traits in Cathy, Heathcliff tries to hold onto the past by controlling her and keeping her at Wuthering Heights, unlike what he was able to do with her mother. Even...
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Posted by mroy on September 30, 2003 at 12:48 AM
Come to my window
Category: 02 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Matthew Roy
In Wuthering Heights, Bronte uses the dream scene with Mr. Lockwood to show the apparent love still felt between Mr. Heathcliff and Catherine Linton/Earnshaw. During Lockwood’s dream, he hears the branch of a fir tree tapping teasingly at the window by his bed. In an effort to stop the noise,...
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Posted by mroy on September 23, 2003 at 02:50 AM
"When the mind is imaginative..."
Category: 01 Blog: Turn of the Screw | Matthew Roy
As dicussed in class, the wild emotions and imagination of the governess often leads her to misread situations and characters. One example comes during a pivotal scene in chapter six when the governess spots "a figure whose right of presence" is "instantly and passionately questioned" (p. 41). Soon after spotting...
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Posted by mroy on September 15, 2003 at 10:12 PM
Practice Blog
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Posted by mroy on September 11, 2003 at 09:42 AM