English 104 - Introduction to Narrative
Ryan Hurd
Always Question Authority?
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Ryan Hurd
Alice in Wonderland and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn view the interaction between children and adults. In both instances the novels reveal what gives these children their power over adults. In Alice in Wonderland, the naratee is given the sense that size and knowledge are some of the few...
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Posted by rhurd on December 09, 2003 at 09:43 AM
Invading Privacy
Category: 10 Blog: The Lovely Bones | Ryan Hurd
Susie Salmon has her privacy completely disregarded by Mr. Harvey while in the ditch. Once Susie speaks as the narrator in Heaven she also invades people’s privacy. Susie explains that, her sister, Lindsey has lived in Susie’s shadow for her entire life, “when people looked at Lindsey, even my father...
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Posted by rhurd on December 04, 2003 at 09:52 AM
Addie's One and Only
Category: 09 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Ryan Hurd
The chapters that precede Addie’s monologue deal with her coffin floating down the river and a desperate attempt by the family to save their mother. Cora discusses how Addie feels about Jewel, and her religious beliefs. According to Addie, Jewel is, “my cross and he will be my salvation. He...
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Posted by rhurd on November 25, 2003 at 01:51 AM
A Vision of Light
Category: 08 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Ryan Hurd
Lamps, lanterns and lights are mentioned by different characters in As I Lay Dying and these references reveal hidden traits about each character that otherwise might go unnoticed. When Vernon describes his encounter with Cash during the rain storm he brings with him a lamp to go downstairs to aid...
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Posted by rhurd on November 18, 2003 at 03:16 AM
Huck's Recycled Naivety
Category: 07 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Ryan Hurd
To Huck, Tom Sawyer is the masterful and ingenious mind behind true adventure. So when the opportunity to rekindle Sawyer’s masterful flame of adventure arises Huck cannot resist the temptation. Tom and Huck decide to free Jim from the terrible barn in which he is being held, and in doing...
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Posted by rhurd on November 11, 2003 at 02:16 AM
Why did you go and do that?
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Ryan Hurd
Huck “makes allowances” for the king and duke because he feels that he has had to deal with people like this before in his life. Huck considers his dad a “low-down humbug and fraud” as well and Huck feels that he knows how to deal with these people, “If I...
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Posted by rhurd on November 04, 2003 at 01:46 AM
Money is of no Importance
Category: 05 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Ryan Hurd
For a child such as Huck, whose love is adventure and danger, a tangible measurement of wealth like money, is of no importance to him or his fellow robbers. Regardless of their premature collection of “six thousand dollars a piece,” the two continue their ways as if nothing has changed...
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Posted by rhurd on October 27, 2003 at 11:25 PM
Credibility in Narration
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Ryan Hurd
The narration done by the characters in Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is effective yet questionable. There are several aspects about the characters that entice the reader to ask, “why is this narrator believable?” For example, in The Turn of the Screw,...
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Posted by rhurd on October 23, 2003 at 01:11 AM
Searching for Answers
Category: 04 Blog: Alice in Wonderland | Ryan Hurd
Obviously the most frustrating encounter for Alice and the reader is when she meets the caterpillar for the very first time. He stares at Alice for awhile and then begins their conversation with, “who are you?” (pg.35) The narrator himself explains how, “This was not an encouraging opening for a...
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Posted by rhurd on October 07, 2003 at 01:25 AM
A Spirit Lives On
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Ryan Hurd
Cathy does indeed become a continuation of her dead mother by expressing almost identical feelings towards Heathcliff for his cruelty and insensitivity. Once Cathy’s mother dies she comes into this world with her mother’s spirit present and thriving inside of her. We now see Cathy as an appendage of her...
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Posted by rhurd on September 30, 2003 at 01:40 AM
A Subtle Message
Category: 02 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Ryan Hurd
Ryan Hurd English 104 9/23/03 Lockwood had seen the names, “Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Heathcliff and Catherine Linton” scratched into the ledge near his bed before he nodded off to sleep. Coincidentally, he had a dream in which he reaches out of his window to stop the tapping of what is...
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Posted by rhurd on September 23, 2003 at 01:50 AM
The Turn of the Screw
Category: 01 Blog: Turn of the Screw | Ryan Hurd
“The Turn of the Screw” English 104 Ryan Hurd 9/16/03 There are several examples in, “The Turn of the Screw” where the governess overanalyzes or misreads information or dialogue given to her by the other characters in the book. There are three simple actions that Miles makes on page 115,...
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Posted by rhurd on September 16, 2003 at 12:49 AM