English 104 - Introduction to Narrative
Mike Stratton
Death and Its Influence Upon the Living
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Mike Stratton
Death in both Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Sebold’s The Lovely Bones has the power to control the actions of the living long after the deaths have occurred. Addie Bundren’s dying wish was to be buried among her own people in Jefferson forty miles from her family’s home. This...
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Posted by mstratto on December 09, 2003 at 09:42 AM
Susie Watches
Category: 10 Blog: The Lovely Bones | Mike Stratton
Susie violates Lindsey’s and Samuels privacy when the two, loose their virginity together. The loss of virginity is a moment to be shared between two people, occurring in solitude, only to be shared with two the lovers. Susie however must watch her sister have sex because at the time of...
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Posted by mstratto on December 04, 2003 at 09:44 AM
Darl's Perspective
Category: 09 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Mike Stratton
Darl has the ability to narrate from the perspective of other characters. In his sections of the novel he describes situations threw a third persons perspective and not his own first person perspective. “‘It’s Jewel she wants,’ Dewey dells says. ‘why Addie,’ Pa says ‘him and Darl went to make...
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Posted by mstratto on November 25, 2003 at 09:38 AM
Cash's and Jewel’s View of the Coffin
Category: 08 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Mike Stratton
The building of the coffin is a source of concern, pride and jealousy for Cash and Jewel. Cashing is attempting to build a coffin which his mother is be proud of. “He (Cash) drags a second plank into position and slants the two of them into their final juxtaposition, gesturing...
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Posted by mstratto on November 18, 2003 at 09:06 AM
Judging Huck
Category: 07 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Mike Stratton
“…Tom Sawyer had gone and took all that trouble and bother to set a free nigger free! and couldn’t ever understand, before, until that minuet and that talk, how he could help a body set a nigger free, with his bringing-up.”(p.292) This statement from Huck clouds how he truly feels...
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Posted by mstratto on November 11, 2003 at 07:39 AM
Huck’s Accommodation of the Dukes
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Mike Stratton
The Dukes, like Tom Sawyer are a source of elaborate stories, lies and adventure for Huck. The Dukes first arrived on the raft, with the dogs of men they conned chasing after them. This introduction combined with their claims to be Dukes alerts Huck that “these liars warn’t no kings...
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Posted by mstratto on November 04, 2003 at 09:51 AM
How Pap is viewed
Category: 05 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Mike Stratton
Huck when stolen away to be a slave to his father is not entirely opposed to the life style being forced upon him. “Two months or more run along, and my clothes got to be all rags and dirt, and I didn’t see how I’d ever got to like it...
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Posted by mstratto on October 28, 2003 at 09:31 AM
Ghost as a Means of Developing Two Novels
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Mike Stratton
Ghosts haunt the living as a means of not being forgotten. Ghosts appear to characters in the novels Wuthering Heights and The Turn of The Screw, the authors uses their appearance to display details and develop characters. When a ghost is seen, those who witness the phenomena seek information about...
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Posted by mstratto on October 23, 2003 at 09:53 AM
Communication Breakdown
Category: 04 Blog: Alice in Wonderland | Mike Stratton
The communication in Alice in Wonderland is a muddled by each character not quite knowing or being able to understand what the others characters are saying. Alice when talking to herself seems to be confused and lost, by her own thought process. “I wonder if I’ve changed in the night?...
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Posted by mstratto on October 07, 2003 at 08:02 AM
Isabella's Purpose
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Mike Stratton
The shift in narration in chapter XIII, acts as a means to display how destitute those in Wuthering Heights have become. Isabella, who married into Wuthering Heights, gives us an innocent’s view of the maliciousness and revengeful actions which occurred within. She is witness to the revenge plots of Hareton...
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Posted by mstratto on September 30, 2003 at 09:30 AM
Eternal Commitment
Category: 02 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Mike Stratton
The dream, which Lockwood has in chapter three, seems to act as a catalyst to show the commitment and passion that Heathcliff and Catherine shared. The two lovers in youth disobeyed authority to escape with one another, and also in Catherine’s death still hold a bond of commitment. Lockwoods...
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Posted by mstratto on September 23, 2003 at 09:27 AM
The Governess Sees Nothing
Category: 01 Blog: Turn of the Screw | Mike Stratton
The Governess is delusional, she convinces herself that the children in her care are evil. She believes that actions taken by the children are diabolical plans to be reunited with the evil spirits, which she believes corrupted them. The actions of the children are in fact normal behaviors construed by...
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Posted by mstratto on September 16, 2003 at 09:09 AM
Practice Blog
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Posted by mstratto on September 11, 2003 at 12:16 AM