English 104 - Introduction to Narrative
Taneisha Wilson
The Persistence of Existence
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Taneisha Wilson
Taneisha Wilson December 2, 2003 English 104 Pro. Mark Phillipson The Persistence of Existence The presence of death often leads to the ignorance of the needs of those alive; nowhere is this statement more true than in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones. In...
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Posted by twilson on December 08, 2003 at 08:20 PM
Suzie's Mom
Category: 10 Blog: The Lovely Bones | Taneisha Wilson
Suzie’s narrative strategy of going back and forth in time has to do with the fact that she died so young. Had Suzie died a little older, looking back on her life would be a lot more retrospective, but because she is so young when she looks back she...
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Posted by twilson on December 03, 2003 at 09:46 PM
Crazy vs. Caring
Category: 09 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Taneisha Wilson
Darl’s peculiarity is evident throughout the novel, both because of Darl’s own actions and because of the way in which other characters describe him. Darl’s strange ways are understood through Darl’s last monologue where he is being taken away to a lunatic asylum. In the beginning of the book, Darl...
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Posted by twilson on November 23, 2003 at 07:09 PM
Sin vs. Salvation
Category: 08 Blog: As I Lay Dying | Taneisha Wilson
In Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying some characters are viewed differently through different eyes. In one such situation Cora a close friend and neighbor of the Bundren family wants to bring Addie Bundren to God, “ I begged her to kneel and…cast from it the devil of vanity and...
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Posted by twilson on November 18, 2003 at 09:13 AM
Principles
Category: 07 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Taneisha Wilson
Huck looks up to Tom and follows him in all his escapades even when they’ll “maybe get us killed besides” (242). Huck looks up to Tom does what Tom wants him to do because Tom is “full of principle”(254). However as it turns out Tom is not as moral as...
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Posted by twilson on November 10, 2003 at 09:33 PM
Frauds and Fathers
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Taneisha Wilson
Huck allows the king and the duke to stay on his raft because he feels he has no choice, “If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way”(chp...
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Posted by twilson on November 03, 2003 at 08:56 PM
Huck in Shining Armor
Category: 05 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Taneisha Wilson
In Huckleberry Finn, Huck pretends to be a hero but he’s actually just a scheming liar. In one instance Huck and Jim come upon a ship wreck and curiosity leads them to check it out. Instead of treasures Huck and Jim happen upon an-almost-murder. Instead of saving the man who...
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Posted by twilson on October 27, 2003 at 11:51 PM
Good Intentions
Category: 11 Essay: James and Bronte | Taneisha Wilson
In Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights the reader is presented with complex narrations that shape the readers understanding of the actions performed by the characters. In both novels the narrator is presented as somewhat untrustworthy and the reader is not entirely sure...
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Posted by twilson on October 22, 2003 at 11:44 AM
The All-Seeing-All-Knowing-One
Category: 04 Blog: Alice in Wonderland | Taneisha Wilson
The narrator in Alice in Wonderland is an omniscient narrator. In a story such as Alice in Wonderland this is an important device because a lot of the passages are seemingly nonsensical and without the aid of an outside party. The omniscient narrator uses a parenthetical device to add insight...
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Posted by twilson on October 05, 2003 at 07:01 PM
Nelly's Literary Ally
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Taneisha Wilson
In chapter 13 Bronte shifts the narrative point of view to that of Isabella in order to leave no doubt in the reader’s mind as to Heathcliff’s atrocious behavior. Before Isabella stepped in to tell her story it was Nelly’s job to convince not only the reader, but also Lockwood...
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Posted by twilson on September 29, 2003 at 09:49 PM
Hidden Agenda
Category: 02 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Taneisha Wilson
Ellen Dean affectionately called Nelly is a trustworthy narrator-- to a certain extent. Lockwood describes her as, “…on the whole a fair narrator and I don’t think I could improve on her style”(121). Nelly in a sense is a fair narrator in that she gives equal attention to all...
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Posted by twilson on September 22, 2003 at 09:43 PM
Confusion
Category: 01 Blog: Turn of the Screw | Taneisha Wilson | Taneisha Wilson
In Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw the character of the governess is a complicated character. This complexity stems from the fact that the reader is not quite certain if the images the governess sees and describes are real or if she is just a sexually deprived young...
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Posted by twilson on September 15, 2003 at 09:30 PM
Confusion
Category: 01 Blog: Turn of the Screw | Taneisha Wilson | Taneisha Wilson
In Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw the character of the governess is a complicated character. This complexity stems from the fact that the reader is not quite certain if the images the governess sees and describes are real or if she is just a sexually deprived young...
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Posted by twilson on September 15, 2003 at 09:30 PM
Practice
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Taneisha is tall Taneisha is not Tom Taneisha is talented Taneisha is not a good tooter Taneisha was never a toucher??...
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Posted by twilson on September 10, 2003 at 07:27 PM