English 104 - Introduction to Narrative
Meredeth Lammert
Identity Theft: A Search for Self and Family
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Meredeth Lammert
Identity – one’s being, one’s character, one’s image – becomes blurred for both Huckleberry Finn and Lindsey Salmon after a horrific murder separates both of them from their parents and parental figures ultimately leaving them to search for a replacement of authority and responsibility in themselves as well as...
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Posted by mlammert on December 13, 2003 at 10:27 AM
Ruth's resurrection of Susie
Category: 10 Blog: The Lovely Bones | Meredeth Lammert
Susie has numerous gifted narrators for two reasons; first of all, when she was alive, she prided herself on being different and an intellectual, as were all of her mourners. Secondly, the reader is seeing all her mourners as different but equally fascinating and gifted people, who all in their...
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Posted by mlammert on December 04, 2003 at 08:55 AM
Now we know
Category: 09 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Meredeth Lammert
Addie’s dialogue is placed, ironically, between Cora and Whitfield, the two people who focus continually on sin. This is important because of the relationship between Addie and Cora and Addie and Whitfield. Whitfield, being a minister and Cora, being very religious, have very strong ideas of sin and the judgment...
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Posted by mlammert on November 25, 2003 at 09:43 AM
The real Cash
Category: 08 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Meredeth Lammert
Cora seems to feel the need to taint Cash’s reputation as a good son to Addie Bundren and a good carpenter that many people including Darl seem to make us believe. Cora sees him as selfish as Jewel and Anse, trying to “skimp” (p. 24) on things in order to...
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Posted by mlammert on November 18, 2003 at 09:26 AM
What about Jim?
Category: 07 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Meredeth Lammert
Why did Huck take his dangerous adventure down the Mississippi River? Initially it was because he wanted to escape from being “sivilized” (p. 38) and from pap’s beatings, but ultimately he made it seem that his adventure became about helping free Jim. But, when we discover that Jim is a...
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Posted by mlammert on November 11, 2003 at 08:33 AM
Afraid to death of conflict
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Meredeth Lammert
Aside from death, Huck’s greatest fear is conflict. Huck goes out of his way, making allowances that often hurt himself, in order to avoid conflict. The duke and the king symbolize Huck’s strong desire to keep his life devoid of personal drama simply through his constant need to accommodate...
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Posted by mlammert on November 04, 2003 at 09:37 AM
What's So Great About Tom Sawyer
Category: 05 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Meredeth Lammert
Through his idolization and constant praise of Tom Sawyer’s bravery and greatness, Huck makes Tom ‘seem’ extremely brave and heroic where in actuality Tom is a playful and adventuresome product of good books, a good imagination, and a taste for mischief. The games the band of robbers play is very...
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Posted by mlammert on October 28, 2003 at 09:50 AM
Where Sexuality and Status Lie in the Servants of England
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Meredeth Lammert
Meredith Lammert Essay #1 10/23/03 Where Sexuality and Status Lie in the Servants of England Relationships of gender and social status are central connecting themes in Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. Sexuality is the main current through which gender relationships are exhibited....
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Posted by mlammert on October 23, 2003 at 09:47 AM
The Presence of an Omniscient Narrator
Category: 04 Blog: Alice in Wonderland | Meredeth Lammert
The narrator in Alice In Wonderland intrigues us with Alice’s story through the use of dialogue, Alice’s inner thoughts, critiques of her actions and comments, and presentation of rhetorical questions. Thus, I would characterize the narrator as omniscient. The passage I would like to closely examine is on page...
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Posted by mlammert on October 07, 2003 at 09:53 AM
Isabella's Narration
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Meredeth Lammert
Isabella’s narration, is in some parts, a way for Bronte to continue intimate parts of the story where Nelly is unable to do so. There is no way for Nelly to intimately recount the story of what is happening while Heathcliff and Isabella are at Wuthering Heights. She gets...
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Posted by mlammert on September 30, 2003 at 09:47 AM
Is Nelly a Trustworthy Narrator
Category: 02 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Meredeth Lammert
Because Nelly was treated by her master as practically one of his own children she now not only subconsciously views herself as an equal but often acts like and treats herself as an equal to her early playmates and now masters: Hindley and Catherine. Catherine scolds Nelly at one...
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Posted by mlammert on September 23, 2003 at 09:52 AM
Misread Situation by the Governess
Category: 01 Blog: Turn of the Screw | Meredeth Lammert
Towards the end of The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James, the governess misreads the situation between Miles and herself. She believes that Miles has been spending an extra time with her because he desires to confess everything, meaning his expulsion from school as well as the relationship between...
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Posted by mlammert on September 16, 2003 at 09:31 AM